Alexander Pope was an eighteenth-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson. Pope is famous for his use of the heroic couplet.. English poet
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. Go to Quote / Comment
In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Go to Quote / Comment
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. Go to Quote / Comment
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person. Go to Quote / Comment
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. Go to Quote / Comment