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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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