O Lady, once I gave love: now I take!
(Modern Love XXVII: Distraction Is The Panacea)
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Passions spin the plot; We are betrayed by what is false within.
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. . . the well of true wit is truth itself, the gathering of the precious drops of right reason, wisdom's lightning and no soul possessing and dispensing it can justly be a target for the world, however well armed the world confronting her.
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Prepare,
You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods:
Not like hard life, of laws.
George Meredith
A kiss is but a kiss now!
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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