I have always laid it down as a maxim and found it justified by experience that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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Time, the avenger unto thee I lift My hands, and eyes, and heart, and crave of thee a gift.
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Nor be, what man should ever be, The friend of Beauty in distress.
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
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Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to
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I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse - borne away with every breath
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