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The news channels are spasming, or frothing, or whatever it is they do.
Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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