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• 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...
• Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 451...
• With all its beauteous honours on its head.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 557...
• Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 304...
• Achilles absent was Achilles still.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 418...
• Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xix, Line 303...
• Ajax the great... Himself a host.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iii, Line 293...
• And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 583...