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If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Love, cough, and a smoke, can’t well be hid.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“I wish we had horses to ride,” Maria said. “In my happiness I would like to be on a good horse and ride fast with thee riding fast beside me and we would ride faster and faster, galloping, and never pass my happiness.”

Ernest Hemingway · For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 · Primary source

“He touched her for the last time and then they turned away from each other and walked off into their different lives.”

Ian Fleming · Moonraker, 1955 · Primary source

“The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands and wrote my will across the sky in stars.”

T. E. Lawrence · Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926 · Primary source

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