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But thousands die without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat:
To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate,
T'enrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

Source: Epistle to Lord Bathurst.
-- 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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