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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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