<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341053" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Couplets on Wit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone<br>And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest<br>Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some who grow dull religious strait commence<br>And gain in morals what they lose in sence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wits starve as useless to a Common weal<br>While Fools have places purely for their Zea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now wits gain praise by copying other wits<br>As one Hog lives on what another sh---.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wou'd you your writings to some Palates fit<br>Purged all you verses from the sin of wit<br>For authors now are so conceited grown<br>They praise no works but what are like their own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Pope">Alexander Pope</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341053" data-title="Couplets on Wit de Alexander Pope" data-description="I But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne. II Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest. III Some who grow dull religious strait commence And gain ..."></div> </div> </div>

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