Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
Unlucky, as Fungoso in the Play,These Sparks with aukward Vanity display
What the Fine Gentleman wore Yesterday!
Alexander Pope
So sweetly mawkish and so smoothly dull.
Alexander Pope
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've 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.
Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Alexander Pope
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope
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