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The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.

— Alexander Pope Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore (1714)

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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.

Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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