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• Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 368...
• Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book viii, Line 367...
• Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852...
• A green old age, That proves the hero born in better days.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 929...
• T is true, 't is certain; man though dead retains Part of himself
  he immortal mind remains....
• Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 628...
• Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 730...
• Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xiv, Line 251...
• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iii, Line 199...