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Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes.
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The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
December 11, 1810
Died:
May 2, 1857
(aged 46)
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