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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.

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    “Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
    Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

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    And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence:”
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