Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather or prunello.
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Let standard-authors, thus, like trophies borne, Appear more glorious as more hacked and torn.Alexander Pope
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Alexander Pope
Nay, fly to altars there theyll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
In every age,
In ev'ry clime ador'd,
By saint, by savage, and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
Alexander Pope
How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug, And sucked all o'er, like an industrious bug.
Alexander Pope
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
Alexander Pope
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