Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.


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ALEXANDER POPE
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE
I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE
It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can unde...
CASSADEE POPE
Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE
'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
ALEXANDER POPE
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
ALEXANDER POPE
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
ALEXANDER POPE
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
ALEXANDER POPE
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
ALEXANDER POPE
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
ALEXANDER POPE
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
ALEXANDER POPE
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE
In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not t...
ALEXANDER POPE
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
ALEXANDER POPE
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
ALEXANDER POPE
'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.
ALEXANDER POPE
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
ALEXANDER POPE
In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER POPE
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
ALEXANDER POPE
Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
ALEXANDER POPE
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
ALEXANDER POPE
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
ALEXANDER POPE
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
ALEXANDER POPE
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
ALEXANDER POPE
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by prece...
ALEXANDER POPE
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake...
ALEXANDER POPE
From pride, from pride, our very reas
ALEXANDER POPE
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE
Passions are the gales of life.
ALEXANDER POPE
An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
ALEXANDER POPE