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Debasement (n.) frees desire in men whose affection and sensuality have split; reverence stays reserved for the mother's image.
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Debasement (n.) frees desire in men whose affection and sensuality have split; reverence stays reserved for the mother's image.
Debasement (n.) is a crime when the state shaves a coin by a hundredth of a grain, and perfectly proper when it prints notes containing no metal at all.