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Nature seems at each mans birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. – Wallace Stevens

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