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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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