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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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