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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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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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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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