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• The man that makes a character makes foes. -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- To Mr.
  Pope, Epistle i, Line 28...
• Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- To Mr. Pope, Epistle i, Line 277...
• But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens!
  how the style refines! -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 220...
• I see them on their winding way, About their ranks the moonbeams play.
  -- Reginald Heber (1783-1826) -- Lines written to a March...
• One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines.
• The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
  ... -- Edward Abbey...
• The Least Perceptive Literary Critic The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax.
  A most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to give a public reading of his latest poem....
• A pencil with no point needs no eraser.