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"The sweet apple reddens on a high branch high upon highest, missed by the applepickers:
No, they didn't miss, so much as couldn't touch."
Sappho of Lesbos, Fr. 105A, Rayor & Lardinois, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works, p. 72.

Resistance Member: Zzzzzzz... – 9S: He's asleep.

"Crime is a stiff and obdurate master, against whom no one comes to be strong except by total rebellion."
[Il delitto è un padrone rigido e inflessibile, contro cui non divien forte se non chi se ne ribella interamente.]
Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed (I promessi sposi), Chapter 20, 1827.

Vicetone — ANGELS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5zWiMjBQEE

"It's not the first stroke that fells the oak."
[Tu sai che per lo primo colpo non cade la quercia.]
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Day 7, Tale 9, 1353.

"Repetition can be emotionally overwhelming, like a series of body blows."
Brian Vickers, Repetition and Emphasis in Rhetoric: Theory and Practice, III, 1994, p. 98.

Jean Restout, Venus visits Vulcan (Vénus demande à Vulcain des armes pour Énée), 1717
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