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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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