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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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