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Every woman is at heart a rake.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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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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