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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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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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