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There was a land where lived no violets. A traveller at once demanded : "Why?" The people told him: "Once the violets of this place spoke thus: 'Until some woman freely gives her lover To another woman We will fight in bloody scuffle.'" Sadly the people added: "There are no violets here." Anonymous submission.
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