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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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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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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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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Education forms the common mind.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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