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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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The laughers are a majority.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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