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• The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 278...
• Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 127...
• And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 583...
• A mass enormous! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 337...
• T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 290...
• First in the fight and every graceful deed.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 295...
• The first in banquets, but the last in fight.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 401...
• T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 427...
• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 293...