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Quotation from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
“The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!”
An Essay on Man, Epistle II, line 18 (Gutenberg #2428: An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell's National Library, 1891))
The close of the portrait of man as a middle being.
Citation: "The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle II, line 18 (Gutenberg #2428: An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires, ed. Henry Morley (Cassell's National Library, 1891)). (id an-essay-on-man-q6)
