"Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times."
— Moral Essays

January 1, 1970

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PoetryWorks by Alexander Pope
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Line 172. Compare: "Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis" (translated: "All things change, and we change with them"), Matthias Borbonius, Deliciæ Poetarum Germanorum, i, 685.