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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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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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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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