The laughers are a majority.
ALEXANDER POPEWomen use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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This long disease, my life.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men; that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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