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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.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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