Pope Nicholas III

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    “what affects our hearts
    Is not the exactness of peculiar parts;
    ‘Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
    But the joint force and full result of all.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
    He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
    And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;”
    —Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)

    “The army is the true nobility of our country.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)