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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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How vast a memory has Love!

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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

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Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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