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One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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