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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.

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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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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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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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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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