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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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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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