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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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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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