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I KNOW the thing that's most uncommon, (Envy be silent, and attend!) I know a reasonable woman, Handsome and witty, yet a friend.

Not warp'd by passion, aw'd by rumour; Not grave thro' pride, or gay thro' folly; An equal mixture of good humour, And sensible, soft melancholy.

"Has she no faults, then (Envy says) sir?" Yes, she has one, I must aver: When all the world conspires to praise her, The woman's deaf, and does not hear.

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