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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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