"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."

Wisdom, Darkness, Folly, Ignorance

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"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."

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"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."

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