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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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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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