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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the read more
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
