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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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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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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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