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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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