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Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
Sometimes gentle sometimes capricious sometimes awful never the same for two moments together almost human in its passions almost spiritual in its tenderness almost Divine in its infinity.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1859 AD · industrial
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- John Ruskin
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1859 AD · industrial
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