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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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