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It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It preëxisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it.

It is as old as the creation, and yet as young and fresh as ever. It preëxisted, still exists, and always will exist. Depend upon it, Eve learned it in Paradise, and was taught its beauties, virtues, and varieties by an angel, there is something so transcendent in it.

Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial

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Thomas C. Haliburton
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Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
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Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)

Page 142 · printed citation: Haliburton · subject: Kisses

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