True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said,Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Alexander Pope
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence?
Alexander Pope
All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame.
Alexander Pope
Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
Alexander Pope
He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way, By force to ravish, or by fraud betray; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
Alexander Pope
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