For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administe…

Alexander Pope
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For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best. ✨ The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope.
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Passions are the gales of life. ✨ Attributed to Alexander Pope by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in a letter to Jonathan Swift, March 29, 1730.
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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 … ▶
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ✨ Alexander Pope (1823). An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Add … ▶
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ✨ Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). Poetical Works, p.284

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best. ✨ The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope.

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