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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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True self-love and social are the same.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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