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Alexander Pope Quotes: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
         

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.


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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.



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