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A fire can, be extinguished; but the flame of desire is never extinguished. Pains affect the body for a while, then cease, and leave you at rest; but from the pain of desire you never get rest, unless you cure it by the medicine of true intelligence, and put desire away from you, and learn to abstain; for desire grows in strength if you follow it, but dies away if you turn from it and abstain.
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