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Quote by Alexander Pope
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attemp

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. – Alexander Pope

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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His cant be wrong whose life is in the right. – Alexander Pope

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