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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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