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• Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, Content to dwell in decencies forever.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 163...
• Most women have no characters at all.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 258...
• And mistress of herself though china fall.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 268...
• Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 43...
• Woman 's at best a contradiction still.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 270...
• T is education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle i, Line 149...
• See how the world its veterans rewards! A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 243...
• Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 19...
• Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 215...