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Alexander Pope Quotes: When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
         

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.


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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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