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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ✨ 'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ✨ 'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 2, l. 197

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