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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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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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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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