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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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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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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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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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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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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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