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If she is dusky, what is that to me? So are the coals, but when we light them, they shine as bright as roses.

— Asclepiades of Samos

εἰ δὲ μέλαινα, τί τοῦτο; καὶ ἄνθρακες· ἀλλ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἐκείνους
θάλψωμεν, λάμπους᾽ ὡς ῥόδεαι κάλυκες.

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