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    But true love is a durable fire
    In the mind ever burning;
    Never sick, never old, never dead,
    From itself never turning.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and Demeter Thesmophoros is the guardian of married life, the deity of the discretion of wives. She is therefore the founder of civilised order.
    —Walter Pater (1839–1894)