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  • If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.281^4.

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