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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Charles Baudelaire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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