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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
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Upham
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