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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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