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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3415
AUTHOR:Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
QUOTATION:Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen; 1
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
ATTRIBUTION:Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 217.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Dryden, Quotation 23. [back]
 

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