Quote #13

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

More from Alexander Pope

  1. Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
  2. I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
  3. The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
  4. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
  5. They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.
  6. The flying Rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all w…
  7. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
  8. Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.

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