Love Quotes
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Two of the best-known love quotes are flagged here as misattributed. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” is credited to Confucius. The oldest English version anyone has found is from a 1982 alumni magazine, where the man quoted was himself passing it along from an unnamed source. “God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy” is credited to Benjamin Franklin. It looks like a garbled version of what he wrote about wine in 1779, in a letter to André Morellet.
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We were playing for the glory of the USSR and for the love of football, not for the money.
For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.
Some love to roam o’er the dark sea’s foam,
Where the shrill winds whistle free.
Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast.
Love guards the roses of thy lips
And flies about them like a bee.
I love it, I love it; and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?
I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.