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Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 29
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In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 379...
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 308...
Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 662...
No more was seen the human form divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 278...
Oh, pity human woe! 'T is what the happy to the unhappy owe.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 198...
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book ii, Line 312...
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xii, Line 538...
Let him, oraculous, the end, the way, The turns of all thy future fate display.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 642...
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book x, Line 46...