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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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