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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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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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Never find fault with the absent.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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