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“When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld