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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.


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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.



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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.



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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.



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Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.



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