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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?

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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

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Woman's at best a contradiction still.

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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

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I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.

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