Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? I…

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. ✨ Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. ✨ Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335

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