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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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