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To laugh were want of goodness and of grace;
And to be grave, exceeds all pow'r of face.

— Alexander Pope

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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
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