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
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line 243
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- Fine by defect, and delicately weak.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line... - And mistress of herself though china fall.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line... - Most women have no characters at all.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line... - Woman 's at best a contradiction still.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Moral Essays, Epistle ii, Line... - Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch,
ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. -- Alexander... - Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle... - Oh, blest with temper whose unclouded ray
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day!
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle... - Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour,
Content to dwell in decencies forever.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Moral Essays, Epistle... - Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it,
If folly grow romantic,
I must paint it. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -...
