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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. – Franz Kafka

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