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Alexander Pope Quotes: Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
         

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.


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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.



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