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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.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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