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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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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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