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...but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him...or bleed, Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in other's breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Just what...

...Never man was truly blest, True Greatnen. Who noble ends by noble means obtains* Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man was great indeed. The Tear of Sympathy. No radiant pearl, which crested fortune wears, No gem, that...

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...will be the reward, whatever be the issue: Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him...or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. IV. With regard to FAME, that still more fantastic blessing, he shews, [from 1. 226 to 249] that all...

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