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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Expense
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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