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• Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 368...
• In death a hero, as in life a friend!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758...
• T is true, 't is certain; man though dead retains Part of himself
  he immortal mind remains....
• Andromache! my soul's far better part.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 624...
• It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
  'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes....
• 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...
• Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,-- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book v, Line 371...
• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,-- A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iii, Line 199...
• Achilles absent was Achilles still.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 418...