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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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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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