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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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