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Pity is sworn servant unto love;
And thus be sure, wherever it begin
To make the way, it lets the master in.

— Samuel Daniel

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The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.

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This is the thing that I was born to do.

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And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.

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