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Advantage Quotes by Alexander Pope
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
- Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more…
- It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
- No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What…
- The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
- Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments…
- True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That…
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