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Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Love
Strongly
Possess
Beauty
Heaven
Sense
Nothing
Attractiveness
Mind
Allure
Men
Doth

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