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"Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after."
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
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