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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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