A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.Alexander Pope
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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True Wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, bet ne'er so well expressed.
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Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state,
How often must it love, how often hate!
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence?
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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