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Dogs, ye have had your day!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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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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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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