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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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