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For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery.
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This metaphor illustrates the struggle between different weather conditions, personifying them as fierce competitors.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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