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Happy the man, of mortals happiest he,
Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;
Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,
But lives at peace, within himself content;
In thought, or act, accountable to none
But to himself, and to the gods alone.

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Epistle to Mrs. Elizabeth Higgons (1690)

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