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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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