Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subjec…

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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, p.63
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, p.63

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