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‘love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions remains among the sharpest expressions of self interest. Not until it has passed through long servitude, through its own self hatred, through mockery, great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell of less of love than the child that lost their dog yesterday’