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The Fairest Flower

by Robert Greene

Robert Greene

[Soudan]

The fairest flower that glories Africa,
Whose beauty Phoebus dares not dash with showers,
Over whose climate never hung a cloud,
But smiling Titan lights the Horizon.




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Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
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