“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
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“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”
p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation <br class="br">The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906)
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