Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). Th…

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, p.66
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