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How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

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Thomas Gray
Age: 54 †
Born: 1716
Born: December 26
Died: 1771
Died: July 30
Literary Critic
Poet
London
England
Little
Great
Indigent
Lows
Proud
Littles

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