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“Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Eloisa to Abelard. Line 74.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c21763aa986ca18999ab4a0ff8db367c43cbc0e7cb27f8d037df50872dd5cc7e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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