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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of man

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

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Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope

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