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“When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.”
—Socrates (469399 B.C.)
“Thank Heaven! the crisis
The danger, is past,
And the lingering illness,
Is over at last M,
And the fever called Living
Is conquered at last.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“There was a young lady called Gloria
Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier
And then by six men
And Sir Gerald again
And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.”
—Anonymous.
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