Pope/history

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    “From pride, from pride, our very reas’ning springs;
    Account for moral, as for nat’ral things:
    Why charge we Heav’n in those, in these acquit?
    In both, to reason right is to submit.”
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    “It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
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