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• And choose an author as you choose a friend.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Essay on Translated Verse, Line 96...
• The multitude is always in the wrong.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Essay on Translated Verse, Line 184...
• Remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
  -- Earl of Roscommon (1633-1684) -- Essay on Translated Verse, Line 87...
• Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 203...
• Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 79...
• Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 109...
• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flow
  But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar....
• A sense of decency is often a decent man's undoing.
• Lots of people make sense, I want to make $$$