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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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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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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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