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How to esimate the mean and variance of data from a Pareto distribution

I have large sample of data that is approximately from a Pareto distribution with unknown parameters. Unfortunately the distribution is sufficiently heavy tailed that just taking the sample mean is not a good estimate. What is a good way to estimate the mean and variance in this case?