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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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