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"But whoso mentioneth her last night's indiscretion shall be despised."
Frank Gelett Burgess, The Maxims of Methuselah, #39, 1907.

Tove Lo — No One Dies From Love
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"To instance only in that Passage about the three wooden Machines mentioned in the Introduction: 
In the Original Manuscript there was a description of a Fourth, which those who had the Papers 
in their Power, blotted out, as having something in it of Satyr, that I suppose they thought was too 
particular, and therefore they were forced to change it to the Number Three, from whence some 
have endeavour'd to squeeze out a dangerous Meaning, that was never thought on. And, indeed, 
the Conceit was half spoiled by changing the Numbers; that of Four being much more Cabalistick, 
and, therefore, better exposing the pretended Virtue of Numbers, a Superstition there intended 
to be ridicul'd."
Jonathan Swift, An Apology For the, &c., 1710 [to strip himself of as many real prejudices as he could.]