Note 1424 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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"The common sense" and "common ease" of which all the world have an equal share, cannot exceed the measure of sense and ease which falls to the lot of the most foolish and suffering of mankind. This is the same sort of equality that there is between the income of a pauper and a millionaire, since both have half-a-crown a week.