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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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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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