Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Love
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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
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ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
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PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
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Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.
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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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