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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
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Desire Good Know Perfectly Quite
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Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
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Battle Coward Fight Sure Win
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Another Bless Human Influence Love One Soul True
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According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
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Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
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Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
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Beginning Ending Every Limit Well
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Be Late Meant never To Too
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Against Hand Handful Mane Reasonable Stone

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