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CHAPTER IV--_The Ethics of Elfland_
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Yet these lovers of beauty could not even keep sober for the blackbird.

They would not go through common Christian marriage by way of recompense to the cowslip.

Surely one might pay for extraordinary joy in ordinary morals.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets.

But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets.


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