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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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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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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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