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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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True self-love and social are the same.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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