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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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