“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”
“Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.”
L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir.
Aphorism 13
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
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L'amour qui naît subitement est le plus long à guérir.
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
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Jean de La Bruyère 65
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