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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror

France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire

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