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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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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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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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