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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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