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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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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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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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