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Alexander Pope

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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.


— Alexander Pope


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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.


— Alexander Pope


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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.


— Alexander Pope


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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.


— Alexander Pope


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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.


— Alexander Pope


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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.


— Alexander Pope


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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!


— Alexander Pope


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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.


— Alexander Pope


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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.


— Alexander Pope


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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.


— Alexander Pope


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He then went to two Catholic schools in London. Dunciad and Moral Essays

Though the Dunciad was first publiAlexander Poped anonymously in Dublin its authorship was not in doubt. He also made friends with Whig writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare and Tennyson.

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