“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lover's Watch, "Four o'Clock General Conversation" (1686).
“When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 115
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