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A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published

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“Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.”

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“Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.”

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“Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.”

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“It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.”

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“Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.”

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“It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.”

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“When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.”

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“A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.”

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“The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.”

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“There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.”

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“There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.”

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“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”

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“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”

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“True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.”

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“Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.”

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“A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.”

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“Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.”

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“There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.”

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“Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.”

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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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“Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.”

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“That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.”

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“The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.”

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“Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.”

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“Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.”

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