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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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