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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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