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"Love can hope where reason would despair," says Lyttleton. "O love, the
beautiful, the brief!" exclaims Schiller. "Love at two-and-twenty is a
terribly intoxicating draught," says Ruffini. "At lovers' perjuries they
say Jove laughs," smiles Shakspeare. "Where love and wisdom drink out of
the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception," said Madame
Neckar. "The poets, the moralists, the painters, in all their
descriptions, allegories, and pictures," says Addison, "have
represented love as a soft torment, a bitter sweet, a pleasing pain, or
an agreeable distress." "O how this spring of love resembleth the
uncertain glory of an April day!
ADIEU, VALOR! RUST, RAPIER!
be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth!" says
Shakspeare. "I do much wonder," says the King of Thought, again, "that
one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his
favor to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in
others, became the argument of his own scorn, by falling in love."
"LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP EXCLUDE EACH OTHER,"
says DuCoeur.
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