"You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money."
 ~ 
Man And Superman
 by 
George Bernard Shaw
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything tends to widen the breach.
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Run to Earth
 by 
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
What did she feel? Did she love him, or did she feel nothing at all for him or for any other man, being, as she had said that afternoon, free, like the wind or the sea?
 ~ 
The Voyage Out
 by 
Virginia Woolf
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
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Venus and Adonis
 by 
William Shakespeare
"What is love but a disease?"
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The Disentanglers
 by 
Andrew Lang
"A marriage without love is dishonour."
 ~ 
Sandra Belloni
 by 
George Meredith
"Kissing don't last: cookery do!"
 ~ 
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
 by 
George Meredith
The task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women.
 ~ 
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
 by 
George Meredith
She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.
 ~ 
Barnaby Rudge
 by 
Charles Dickens
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions.
 ~ 
Hard Times
 by 
Charles Dickens