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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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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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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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