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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

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