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Alexander Pope Quotes about Pleasure

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.67

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.79