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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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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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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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