The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore: All, all look up, with reverential Awe, At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`' Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope, in his poem The Rape of the Lock, expresses the idea that the best way to be admired is to do things that “escape” or break the law. He says: “The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,/ Are what ten thousand envy and adore:/ All, all look up, with reverential awe,/At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:/ While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'-” The idea we hold sacred today of our laws and morals is lost in the chaos and darkness of our modern world.

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