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Class
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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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Credit
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
-Alexander Pope
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Criticism
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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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Curiosity
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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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Death
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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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Education
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
-Alexander Pope
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Evil
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
-Alexander Pope
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Exaggeration
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
-Alexander Pope
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Excuses
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An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.
-Alexander Pope
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Eyes
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
-Alexander Pope
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Faith
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
-Alexander Pope
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Fame
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
-Alexander Pope
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Fanaticism
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
-Alexander Pope
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Father
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
-Alexander Pope
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Fools, Foolishness
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Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
-Alexander Pope
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Forgiveness
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
-Alexander Pope
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
-Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
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Generosity
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
-Alexander Pope
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Gossip
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
-Alexander Pope
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Government
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
-Alexander Pope
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Happiness
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
-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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Hate
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
-Alexander Pope
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Health
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Health consists with temperance alone.
-Alexander Pope
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Honesty
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
-Alexander Pope
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Books by and about Alexander Pope