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Fix'd Like A Plant On His Peculiar Spot, To Draw Nutrition, Propagate, And Rot.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Man, Epistle ii, Line 63
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