Poeticizing Another MACHADO (This One Is About Fertilizer)

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Instead of a coffin,

you should often

know the difference

between the two.

  If you want her heart

instead of her shoe

 

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VICE IS

OFTEN

THE MANURE

OF VIRTUE

 

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MACHADO DE ASSIS

(1839-1908)

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