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I pray your Highness mark this curious herb:
Touch it but lightly, stroke it softly, Sir,
And it gives forth an odor sweet and rare;
But crush it harshly and you'll make a scent
Most disagreeable.

— 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.

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.

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

Hans Breitmann's Party (1871)

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