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• Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto ii, Line 27...
• At every word a reputation dies.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iii, Line 16...
• And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto i, Line 134...
• The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iii, Line 21...
• Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto v, Line 34...
• Coffee, which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iii, Line 117...
• Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iii, Line 7...
• What dire offence from amorous causes springs! What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto i, Line 1...
• Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Rape of the Lock, Canto iv, Line 123...