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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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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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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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