“1805. Hatred is blind, as well as Love.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Sometimes, he thought, real love is silent as well as blind.”
— Stephen King, book The Stand
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Source: The Stand
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