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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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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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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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