Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.Alexander Pope
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
Poet · 1688 – 1744
English poet and master of the heroic couplet. His works include An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock and An Essay on Man, along with celebrated translations of Homer.
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