“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
“But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, book Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 70
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