Proverbial (14)

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A heart put in a closet is a loss of great concern, but a heart in the prison of sex will find too little to grieve for. Ruin is our ointment. The other is a match to any pain.

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 21 October 1662.

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