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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...
• With all its beauteous honours on its head.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 557...
• First in the fight and every graceful deed.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 295...
• Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852...
• He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vii, Line 143...
• Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book i, Line 332...
• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book x, Line 293...
• 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...