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By Jove The Stranger And The Poor Are Sent, And What To Those We Give, To Jove Is Lent.
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,
And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vi, Line 247
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