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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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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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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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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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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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