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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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