The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
More Quotes from Alexander Pope:
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.Alexander Pope
In every age,
In ev'ry clime ador'd,
By saint, by savage, and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!
Alexander Pope
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Alexander Pope
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Alexander Pope
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
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