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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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