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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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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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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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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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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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