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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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