What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even…

Alexander Pope
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, p.101
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, p.101

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