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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. ✨ Alexander Pope (1825). The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life, p.198
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. ✨ Alexander Pope (1825). The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life, p.198

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