• Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

    William Makepeace Thackeray: Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.68