Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
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