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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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