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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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