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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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