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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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