"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~












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"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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