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    Tangled was I in Love’s snare.
    Oppressed with pain, torment with care;
    Of grief right sure, of joy quite bare,
    Clean in despair by cruelty.
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)