“Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.”
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“Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.”
“Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.”
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