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    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.

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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

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You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. read more

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

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