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What is love, but to hold dear without expectation? What is love, but first given devotion? What is love . . . But freedom.

— Queen of Sheba

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What are the seven that issue and nine that enter, the two that offer drink, and the one that drinks.

A weak man declares a woman a temptress and orders her to cover herself. A strong man covers himself and says nothing.

You are truly wise, now I will ask you something, and we shall see if you are capable of answering me.

I will go and see whether he is wise or not, and I will come to test him with riddles.

The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth remembered only when we leave their obscurity. And so we become infamous because we were not invisible, the truth of our lives ephemeral as incense.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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