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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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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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This long disease, my life.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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