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Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes: Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.
         

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.


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