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Author name:
"Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Letter"
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"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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Date: 1737
"My faults will not be hid from you, and perhaps it is no dispraise to me that they will not: the cleanness and purity of one's mind is never better proved, than in discovering its own faults at first view; as when a stream shows the dirt at its bottom, it shows also the transparency of the water."
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Date: 1737
"You see 'tis with weak heads as with weak stomachs, they immediately throw out what they received last; and what they read floats upon the surface of their mind, like oil upon water, without incorporating."
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