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    What blessings thy free bounty gives
    Let me not cast away;
    For God is paid when man receives,
    To enjoy is to obey.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    The Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)