It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore mu…

William Shakespeare
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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off. ✨ Macbeth II. 3
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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off. ✨ Macbeth II. 3

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