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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3388
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:Eye Nature’s walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 13.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Milton, Quotation 218. [back]
 

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