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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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