"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."
-Alexander Pope
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"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.“
-Alexander Pope
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"An honest man's the noblest work of God."
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"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."
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