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Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

    Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne once Heaven gives it to us.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    by noon
    the whole city in all its corruption,
    all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away,
    has become a temple,
    fragile, insolent, absolute.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)