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"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
United Kingdom - Poet
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To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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At every word a reputation dies.
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Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks wit...
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them,...
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything...
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He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced ...
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a ...
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may mak...
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed
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