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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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