Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. ✨ Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Mat … ▶
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines! ✨ 'An Essay on Criticism' (1 … ▶
By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ✨ Alexander Pope (1825). The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life, p.265
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Po … ▶
The proper study of Mankind is Man. ✨ An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 1 (1733) See Charron 1

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