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“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”
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“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
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