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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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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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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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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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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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