“The kiss you take is paid by that you give:
The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.”

—  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Heroic Love, Act V, scene 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Kissing", p. 416-19.

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