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Alexander Pope Quotes: Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
         

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.


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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.



See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

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