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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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