"The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can
know it?"
—Holy Writ
It does not take much to make two hearts beat faster than one.
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The heart can deceive itself when it cannot deceive another.—Which will be cold comfort to some lovers, though it may console others.
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To admit a sacred visitant into the inner recesses of the human heart, those recesses must be neat indeed. Remember, too, that you can
Never expect an angel to act as a charwoman; the sweeping must be done by the owner. Lastly,
Unless each heart is permitted access to the other, their union is fictitious, perhaps perilous.—Explain these tropes who can.
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No man can tell to whom a woman's heart belongs; not even the man who calls the woman "his". And