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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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