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As Yet A Child, Nor Yet A Fool To Fame, I Lisp'd In Numbers, For The Numbers Came.
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As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 127
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No creature smarts so little as a fool. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 84...
On wings of winds came flying all abroad." -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 218...
Fired that the house rejects him, "'Sdeath! I 'll print it, And shame the fools.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 61...
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr.
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Obliged by hunger and request of friends. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr.
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Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to snee
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike....
That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 340...
Destroy his fib or sophistry--in vain! The creature 's at his dirty work again.
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