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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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