“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
“It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.”
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“A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 141.
“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life.
“Fall in love with a man, and you end up doing laundry, even if it does belong to another man.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
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(15 October 1993)
