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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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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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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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