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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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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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