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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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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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