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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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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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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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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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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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