Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form …

William Shakespeare
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. ✨ William Shakespeare (1833). The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, p.128
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