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What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, c

What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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