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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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