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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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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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