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Birthday Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
- Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
- Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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