Our age has lost much of its ear for poetry, as it has its eye for color and line, and its taste for war and worship, wine and women. (Henry Adams)

Our age has lost much of its ear for poetry, as it has its eye for color and line, and its taste for war and worship, wine and women.

Henry Adams

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