With Love - compiled by Dave Braithwaite ( dwb@CS.nott.AC.Uk )
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	At the touch of Love every one becomes a poet.
				Plato
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	Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes
	the ride worthwhile.
				Sean Connery
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	The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity - love.  And
	the story of a love is not important -what is important is that one
	is capable of love.  It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted
	of eternity.
				Helen Hayes
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	Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
				Ralph Connor
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	Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never
	boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take
	offense, and it is not resentful.  Love takes no pleasure in other
	people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse,
	to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
	 Love does not come to an end.
				1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 ( Jerusalem Bible )
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	How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than
	yourself.  Everybody should try it.
				Barbara Pym
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	Love makes the time pass.  Time makes love pass.
				French Proverb
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	Before falling in love, I was defined.  Now I am undefined, weeds are
	growing in between my ribs.
				Joyce Carol Oates
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	But some emotions don't make a lot of noise.  It's hard to hear pride.
	Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat.  And pure love - why, some
	days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
				Erma Bombeck
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	Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's
	last romance.
				Ocsar Wilde
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	Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long
	time in a shop window.  You may love it when you get it home, but it
	doesn't always go with everything in the house.
				Jean Kerr
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	Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you 
	have to make.  And you must use your imagination too.
				Joyce Cary
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	Don't smother each other.  No one can grow in the shade.
				Leo F. Buscaglia
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	Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
				Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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	The heart that loves is always young.
				Greek Proverb
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	Love is I know not what, which comes from I know not where and finishes
	I know not how.             
				Scudery
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	The more you judge, the less you love.
				Honore de Balzac
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	Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
				Japanese Proverb
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	No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his
	creatures.
				Marguerite de Valois
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	Escape me ?
	Never -
	Beloved !
	While I am I, and you are you,
	  So long as the world
	    contains us both,
          Me the loving and you
            the loth,
	While the one eludes, must
	the other persue.
				Robert Browning
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	O lyric love, half angel
   	  and half bird,
	And all a wonder and a
	  wild desire !
				Robert Browning
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	In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
				Attributed to Saul Bellow
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	Love tells us many things that are not so.
				Ukranian Proverb
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	Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight ?
				Christopher Marlowe
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	But, O Sarah ! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen
	around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the gladdest
	days and the darkest nights...always, always, and if there be a soft
	breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans
	you throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.  Sarah, do not
	mourn me dead: think I am gone and wait for me, for we shall meet 
	again.
				Major Sullivan Ballou, Union Army, 
				from a letter to his wife.
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	The love we give away is the only one we keep.
				Elbert Hubbard
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	No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
				Mignon McLaughlin
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	Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
				Song of Solomon 8:7
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	You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for 
	money.  I love bike racing.
				Greg LeMond
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	When you love someone all your saved wishes start coming out.
				Elizabeth Bowen
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	Ah, Celeste, my pretty jewel, I love you as a pig loves the mud !
				Creole Proverb
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	All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn
	the art of making love.  Good battle is objective and honest - never
	vicious or cruel.  Good battle is helthy and constructive, and brings
	to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
				Ann Landers
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	Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
				Josh Billings
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	Can one ever remember love ? It's like trying to summon up the smell of
	a rose in a cellar.  You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
				Arthur Miller
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	Nobody can have the soul of me.  My mother has had if, and nobody can
	have it again.  Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe
	me like an atmosphere.
				D. H. Lawrence
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	You see through love, and that
	  deludes your sight,
	As what is straight seems 
	  crooked through the water
				John Dryden
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	Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."  Mature love says
	"I need you because I love you."
				Erich Fromm
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	How do you know when love is gone ? If you said that you would be there
	at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the 
	police yet, - it's gone.
				Marlene Dietrich
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	Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it.
				Jerome K. Jerome
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	Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as 
	to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
				Laurence Sterne
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	The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes
	human beings from the beasts.
				Heywood Broun
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	A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with
	a husband it runs the other way.
				Honore de Balzac
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	One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of
	love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together
	until maybe you fall in again.
				Judith Viorst
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	Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and
	traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination.  
	There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
				Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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	There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are 
	willing to love.
				Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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	Love is supposed to start with bells ringing and go downhill from 
	there.  But it was the opposite for me.  There's an intense connection
	between us, and as we stayed together, the bells rang louder.
				Lisa Niemi
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	Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
				Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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	Gather ye rosebuds whil ye may,
	  Old time is still a-flying; 
	And this same flower that smiles today 
	  Tomorrow will be dying.
				Robert Herrick
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	Follow love and it will flee, 
	Flee love and it will follow thee.
				John Gay
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	Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
				Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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	So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without
	him live no life.
				John Milton
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	If you want to be loved, be lovable.
				Ovid
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	I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility
	and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the 
	help of the woman I love.
				Edward, Duke of Windsor
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	Love means never having to say you are sorry.
				Erich Segal, Love Story
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	The fickleness of the woman I love is only equaled by the infernal
	constancy of the women who love me.
				George Bernard Shaw
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	To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to
	mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
				H. L. Mencken
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	Hell's afloat in lover's tears.
				Attributed to Dorothy Parker
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	A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted 
	hearth - with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light
	extinguished.
				Frank P. Tebbetts
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	Don't let love interfere with your appetite.  It never does with mine.
				Anthony Trollope
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	At a cocktail party the other night I looked across a crowded room and
	was half taken by a stranger, in half profile, a handsome, terribly
	young-looking man with a halo of backlighted curls.  And then he turned
	and I realized that it was the stranger I am married to, the 
	beneficiary on my insurance policy, the sport jacket, the love of my 
	life.
				Ann Quindlen
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	Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
				Russian Proverb
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	There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first
	consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its silken wings.
				Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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	Marriages are made in heaven and are consummated on earth.
				French Proverb
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	There is no fear in love; but perfect love drives out fear.
				1 John 4:18
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	To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved.
				Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
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	A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.
				Publilius
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	Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is nut an episode in a
	man's.
				Madame de Stael
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	Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in 
	heaven.
				George Sand
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	The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
				Terence
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	Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have
	nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
				David Byrne
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	Marriage resmbles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be
	separated, otfen moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing
	anyone who comes in between them.
				Sydney Smith
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	Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
				Robert Browning
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	The honey is sweet, but the bee has a sting.
				Benjamin Franklin
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	Why did she love him ?
	Curious fool - be still -
	Is human love the growth of the human will ?
				Lord Byron
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	At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has
	lasted is the love which has everything, every failure and every 
	betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is
	no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
				Graham Greene
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	A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
				Latin Proverb
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	Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
				Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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	Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge;
	thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
				Ruth 1:16
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	I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives but 
	women when they love give everything.
				Oscar Wilde
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	Where there is love there is no sin.	
				Montenegrin
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	I've never been in love.  I've always been a lawyer.
				Unknown
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	A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
				James Barrie
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	To love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden.
				Robert Louis Stevenson
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	True love is like a psychic experience.  Everyone tells ghost stories,
	but few have ever seen a ghost.
				Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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	Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight 
	girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
				Judith Viorst
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	The first duty of love is to listen.
				Paul Tillich
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	After the verb "to love," "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the 
	world.
				Baroness Bertha von Suttner
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	Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
				William Shakespeare
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	Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
				Voltaire
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	A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the 
	open sea.
				Honore de Balzac
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	He who is not impatient is not in love.
				Italian Proverb
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	Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
				Oliver Wendell Holmes
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	No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do
	with a single thread.
				Robert Burton
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	Love is like quicksilver in the hand.  Leave the fingers open and it 
	stays.  Clutch it, and it darts away.
				Dorothy Parker
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	Don't brood.  Get on with living and loving.  You don't have forever.
				Leo F. Buscaglia
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	Love is like linen often 
	changed, the sweeter.
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	Love can never grow old,
	Locks may lose their brown and gold,
	Cheeks may fade and hollow grow,
	But the hearts that love will know
	Never winter's frost and chill,
	Summer's warmth is in them still.
				Eben Eugene Rexford
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	For one man is my world of all the men
	This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
				Christina Rossetti
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	I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love.  His hat was
	old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed
	through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
				Victor Hugo
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	No more we meet in yonder bowers
	Absence has made me prone to roving;
	But older, firmer hearts than ours,
	Have found monotony in loving.
				Lord Byron
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	I just want to get a Ph.d in love.
				Barbara De Angelis
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	When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when
	they do not love us, they give us credit fot nothing, not even out 
	virtues.
				Honore de Balzac
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	The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
				Douglas Jerrold
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	The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a 
	lion.
				Arab Proberb
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	You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
				Jewish Proverb
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	When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we
	were before.
				Blaise Pascal
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	Who loves, raves.
				Lord Byron
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	It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it
	is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from
	time to time.
				Honore de Balzac
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	He is not a lover who does not love forever.
				Euripides
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	He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in his sides.
				Herbert
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	Love is a canvas pattern furnished by Nature, and embroidered by
	imagination.
				Voltaire
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	Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human
	existance.
				Eric Fromm
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	It is never too late to fall in love.
				Sandy Wilson
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	Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
				Miguel de Unamuno
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	Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain.  They steal your energy and keep
	you from love.
				Leo F. Buscaglia
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	Love dies only when growth stops.
				Pearl S. Buck
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	A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with
	the same person.
				Mignon McLaughlin
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	A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
				Ancient Turkish Proverb
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	Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the 
	whole girl.
				Stephen Leacock
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	It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less 
	difficult to know that it has begun.
				Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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	Stay with me flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
				Song of Solomon 2:5
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	God is love, but get it in writing.
				Gypsy Rose Lee
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	Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
				Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
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	One should always be in love.  That is the reason one should never 
	marry.
				Oscar Wilde
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	It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
				Paul Geraldy
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	Love is the only weapon we need.
				Rev H. R. L. Sheppard
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	Love is the deluision that one woman differs from another.
				H. L. Mencken
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	To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
				Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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	Respect is love in plain clothes.
				Frankie Byrne
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	Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or
	intelligent.  We love because we love.
				Honore de Balzac
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	Infactuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart
	as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen,
	and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he's 
	as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph 
	Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford -
	but you'll take him anyway.
				Judith Viorst
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	Sex is a momentary itch, 
	Love never lets you go.
				Kingsley Amis
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	I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in
	the works of Plato.
				Edgar Jepson
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	Tis better to have loved and lost
	Than to have never have loved at all.
				Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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	Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common donominator,
	but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
				W. H. Auden
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	Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and
	everyone else.
				George Bernard Shaw
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	Value yourself.  The only people who apprecaite a doormat are people
	with dirty shoes.
				Leo F. Buscaglia
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	Thou art my own, my darling and my wife;
	And when we pass into another life,
	Still thou art mine.  All this which now we see
	Is but the childhood of eternity.
				Arthur Joseph Munby
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	Love is love's reward.
				John Dryden
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	I know the difference now between dedication and infadtuation.  That
	doesn't mean I don't still get an enormous kick out infactuation: the
	exciting ephamera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the 
	heart.
				Anna Quindlen
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	He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days.
				?
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	Jesus said love one another.  He didn't say love the whole world.
				Mother Teresa
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	Just a wee cot - the crickets chirr - love and the smiling face of her.
				James Whitcomb Riley
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	Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except
	possession and dispossossion.
				Benjamin Franklin
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	The mind has a thousand eyes,
	  And the heart but one;
	Yet the light of a whole life dies
	  When love is done.
				Francis William Bourdillon
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