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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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