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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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