Quote #47
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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- Silence gives consent.
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- The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is - to die.
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