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Friday, October 17, 2025
The Mean
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), "The First Satire of the Second
Book of Horace, Imitated," lines 67-70:
Papist or Protestant, or both between,
Like good Erasmus in an honest mean,
In moderation placing all my glory,
While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.