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

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

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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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“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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