“Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection,—these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.”

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Reported in Maturin M. Ballou, Pearls of Thought (1882), p. 142.

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American writer 1820–1904

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