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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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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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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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