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“An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
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You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”
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