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Quotation by Alexander Pope
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've played, and loved, and eat, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age
Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage:
Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
Whom Folly pleases, and whose follies please.
You've played, and loved, and eat, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age
Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage:
Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
Whom Folly pleases, and whose follies please.
Alexander Pope (1688–1744), British satirical poet. Imitations of Horace, bk. 2, epistle 2, l. 322-7 (1737).
Last lines of bk. 2, epistle 2.
Last lines of bk. 2, epistle 2.
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