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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, ang

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel. – Alexander Pope

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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. – Alexander Pope

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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. – Alexander Pope

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Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. – Heinrich Heine

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