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  •    If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only.

    - Elizabeth ne  e Barrett Browning
      Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet14.

  • 'Before she came,'said a soldier,'there was cussin'and swearin', but after that it was 'oly as a church.' The most cherished privilege of the fighting man was abandoned for the sake of Miss Nightingale.

    - (Giles) Lytton Strachey
      EminentVictorians,'Florence Nightingale'.

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