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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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