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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I want to reconcile myself with heaven,
I want to love, I want to pray,
I want to believe in good.
Of all the paths lead to a woman's love
Pity's the straightest.
All love’s emblems, and all cry,
"Ladies, if not pluck’d, we die."
What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!