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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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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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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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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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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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