Kill the Ones You Love/Quotes

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves

By each let this be heard,

Some do it with a bitter look,

Some with a flattering word,

The coward does it with a kiss,

The brave man with a sword!
—Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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