I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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John Keats Quote
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
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