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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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