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Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?
Yes she has one, I must aver;
When all the world conspires to praise her,
The woman's deaf and does not hear.

Source: On a Certain Lady at Court
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.


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