“What we have loved
Others will love
And we will teach them how.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”
— John Irving, book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
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American novelist and screenwriter 1942Related quotes
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