Alexander Pope Quote

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age
Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage.


Imitations of Horace (1737) bk. 2, epistle 2


Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age Comes...

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age Comes...

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age Comes...

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age Comes...