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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Verse and Prose, p.272
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Verse and Prose, p.272

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