At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. - Alexander Pope

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My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.

Alexander Pope

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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