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What Dire Offence From Amorous Causes Springs! What Mighty Contests Rise From Trivial Things!
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What dire offence from amorous causes springs!
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Rape of the Lock, Canto i, Line 1
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And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iii, Line 153...
At every word a reputation dies.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iii, Line 16...
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto v, Line 34...
Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto ii, Line 27...
Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iv, Line 123...
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iii, Line 21...
What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose!
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