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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Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
This is Love; to fly heavenward
To rend every instant a hundred veils.
I am the sunlight falling from above,
Yet never severed from the sun I love.
When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered.
"I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!"
Though the ruby has no stamp, what matters it?
Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.
Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love (of coffee).