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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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