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Satire Or Sense, Alas! Can Sporus Feel? Who Breaks A Butterfly Upon A Wheel?
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Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 307
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