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Bend close! You will smell the lily fragrance of love, the stench of lust, now odors as exquisite as the very spirit of violets, and now such nauseous repulsions as words cannot tell.

— Frank Crane Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)

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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

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