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I am
not unaware that the charge of
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coarseness
and sensuality has been affixed
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to
them. My moral constitution may be
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hopelessly
tainted or - too sound to be
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tainted,
as the critic wills, but I confess that
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I
extract no poison from these Leaves - to
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me
they have brought only healing. --Fanny
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Fern,
critic and popular essayist
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