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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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