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From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty\'s rose might never die,

But as the riper should by time decease,

His tender heir might bear his memory:

But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,

Feed\'st thy light\'s flame with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abundance lies,

Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:

Thou that art now the world\'s fresh ornament,

And only herald to the gaudy spring,

Within thine own bud buriest thy content,

And tender churl mak\'st waste in niggarding:

  Pity the world, or else this glutton be,

  To eat the world\'s due, by the grave and thee.

 	--William Shakespeare

No, this trick won\'t work...How on earth are you ever going to explain
in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as
first love? --Albert Einstein

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