There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.Alexander Pope
Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,
There are as mad, abandon'd Criticks too.
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See how the world its veterans rewards A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Of man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Alexander Pope
May one kind grave unite each hapless name,
And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
Alexander Pope
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