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• Drink ye to her that each loves best! And if you nurse a flame That 's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name.
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  -- Edward De Bono...
• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
  And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd....