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His Own Quotes by Alexander Pope
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to…
- I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole…
- The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
- Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
- Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
- Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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