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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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