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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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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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