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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
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.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes read more
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a read more
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.
Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25].
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25].
