Thursday, February 11, 2010

This little poem really describes the society in which we live.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.


Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733–1734), Epistle II, lines 217–20.

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