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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one anothe

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire

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