“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed” was the ninth beatitude.”
Alexander Pope
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“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”
Alexander Pope
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“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
Alexander Pope
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“‘Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.”
Alexander Pope
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
Alexander Pope
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“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”
Alexander Pope
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“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”
Alexander Pope
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“Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.”
Alexander Pope
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“Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.”
Alexander Pope
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“So vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
Alexander Pope
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“Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil’d; if right, I kiss’d the rod.”
Alexander Pope
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“Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!”
Alexander Pope
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“I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
Alexander Pope
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“Behold the child, by nature’s kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
Alexander Pope
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“Fools admire, but men of sense approve.”
Alexander Pope
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“Most authors steal their works, or buy.”
Alexander Pope
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“Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.”
Alexander Pope
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“Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?”
Alexander Pope
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“Most women have no characters at all.”
Alexander Pope
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“True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.”
Alexander Pope
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