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Henry Home, Lord Kames on Wedding

1696–1782 Scotland

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Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

The comparison of love to fire holds good in one respect, that the fiercer it burns the sooner it is extinguished.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. Expostulations betwixt friends end generally ill, but well betwixt lovers.

Treasury of Thought (1881)

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