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• Vain was the chief's the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Odes, Book iv, Ode 9...
• Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
• Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
• Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star.
• He 's armed without that 's innocent within.
• Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
• Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
• The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
• The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.