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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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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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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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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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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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