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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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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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