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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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The laughers are a majority.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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