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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isnt much better than tedious disease. – Alexander Pope

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