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In love, we would much rather give than take. Yet, if the giving is one-sided, there is trouble. And

Love brooks no half measures. Again,

Trust a woman to calculate the breaking-strain of her lover's heart. But she will never let him off with less than the maximum stress.

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When love is dead, it is perhaps best soonest buried.

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In astronomy, to determine the motions of three bodies mutually attractive is admittedly difficult. It is easy compared with the same problem in love.

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A man's work and a woman's love, though to each the sum-total of life, are often things wholly and totally dissociated.