Ah, too forgetful of thy wife and son!
(The Iliad: Book VI)
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.Alexander Pope
Respecting man, whatever wrong we call,
May, must be right, as relative to all.
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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.
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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
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