"In good time, nevertheless, as the ardor of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, rependant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky
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