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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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