The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. - Alexander Pope - Quotesmemo.com

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I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.

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Alexander Pope

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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