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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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