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Love and Hate

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All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

La Rochefoucauld, in Love and Hate and Success and Failure

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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate

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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Helen Rowland, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

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There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

George Sand, in Love and Hate

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw, in Love and Hate

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.

Socrates, in Love and Hate

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My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates, in Love and Hate

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Robert Southey, in Love and Hate

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.

David Storey, in Love and Hate

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray, in Love and Hate

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Truth is fiction when spilled from the lips of a man.

Lisa Tillotson, in Love and Hate

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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin, in Love and Hate

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire, in Love and Hate

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Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Mae West, in Love and Hate

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West, in Love and Hate

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde, in Love and Hate

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde, in Love and Hate

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Douglas Yates, in Love and Hate

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A man needs a mistress, just to break the monogamy.

Unknown, in Love and Hate and Men and Women

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Before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

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