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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
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Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.
Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
'Tis hard if all is false that I advance, A fool must now and then be right by chance.
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