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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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