Love Quotes and Sayings
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno
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All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. Julie Andrews
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. Barbara de Angelis
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara de Angelis
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Thomas Aquinas
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
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Love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? Richard Bach
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James A. Baldwin
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. Honore de Balzac
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Love is the poetry of the senses. Honore de Balzac
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. Honore de Balzac
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Love that is not madness is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. Natalie Clifford Barney
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A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. Cyrano de Bergerac
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. Sarah Bernhardt
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. Boethius
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. Boethius
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Bronte
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. Rupert Brooke
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. Gwendolyn Brooks
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The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. Jean de la Bruyere
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Robert Burton
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Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
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Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. David Byrne
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Friendship is Love without his wings! Lord Byron
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. John Ciardi
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. Paulo Coelho
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. Charles Caleb Colton
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. William Congreve
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. Benjamin Disraeli
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More than kisses, letters mingle souls. John Donne
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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. Theodore Dreiser
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To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Henry Drummond
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond
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Love is love's reward. John Dryden
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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis
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All mankind love a lover. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. Werner Erhard
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Zelda Fitzgerald
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox
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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
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Love is metaphysical gravity. R. Buckminster Fuller
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There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. Thomas Fuller
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Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland
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I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. Judy Garland
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Khalil Gibran
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran
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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
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Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. Daniel S. Greenberg
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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. John Harrigan
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There is only one terminal dignity - love. Helen Hayes
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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Ben Hecht
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The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
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Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan
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Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made. Darren L. Johnson
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Love is my religion - I could die for it. John Keats
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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There is a woman at the begining of all great things. Alphonse de Lamartine
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To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. Alphonse de Lamartine
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Love is the flower you've got to let grow. John Lennon
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. Samuel Lover
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It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine
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Do all things with love. Og Mandino
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. W. Somerset Maugham
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. H. L. Mencken
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. H. L. Mencken
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne
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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. George Edward Moore
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There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. Charles Morgan
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There is no limit to the power of loving. John Morton
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. Friedrich Nietzsche
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anais Nin
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Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid
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If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. Plato
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We loved with a love that was more than love. Edgar Allan Poe
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. Barbara Pym
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. Daphne Rae
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To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I." Ayn Rand
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke
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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell
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Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J. D. Salinger
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. Erich Segal
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa
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Love is what you've been through with somebody. James Thurber
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. Miguel de Unamuno
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. Miguel de Unamuno
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov
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Love is being stupid together. Paul Valery
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst
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Love conquers all. Virgil
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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man. Tammy Wynette
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to. Tammy Wynette
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Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young
