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Illustration★★Pope wrote to Addison, “I congratulate you upon having your share in that which all the great men al all the good men that ever lived have had their share of—envy and calumny. ‘To be uncensured and to be obscure is the same thing.” 8001. DEVELOPMENT, Animal, Empedocles thought that the first of all animals were trees, and they sprang from the earth before the sun
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Pope tells Addison that envy and slander are the price great and good men pay, since to escape censure is to remain obscure.
