In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in …

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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. ✨ Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, p.384
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost. ✨ Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, p.384

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