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DRAMATISTS > poet > Alexander Pope
If, presume not...
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If, presume not to God to scan;
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great.
Source: An Essay on Man, Epistle 2.
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.