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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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