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If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world had never been.

— Charles Godfrey Leland

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Love leads to present rapture,—then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.

The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life.

Hans Breitmann gife a barty—
Where ish dat barty now?

Hans Breitmann's Party (1871)

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind
From being silent brutes to singing men.

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