Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you…

Alexander Pope
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ✨ Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, p.48
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ✨ Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, p.48

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