"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.“
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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