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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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