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Love Seldom Haunts The Breast Where Learning Lies, And Venus Sets Ere Mercury Can Rise.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, Line 369
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
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Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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