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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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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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