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Alexander Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.. English poet


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Quote Left But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate. Quote Right
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Quote Left They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Quote Right
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Quote Left No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday. Quote Right
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Quote Left Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. Quote Right
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Quote Left There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. Quote Right
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