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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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