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The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law: While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-` 'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy' - Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I
— Alexander Pope
Tags: values, public-opinion, poetry

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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
— Alexander Pope
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
— Alexander Pope
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
— Alexander Pope
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
— Alexander Pope
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
— Alexander Pope
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