“love doesn't follow the rules… nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
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Variant: There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.
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Original: (de) Des Ritters Lied und Weise,
sie fand ich neu, doch nicht verwirrt;
verliess er unsre Gleise,
schritt er doch fest und unbeirrt.
Wollt ihr nach Regeln messen,
was nicht nach eurer Regeln Lauf,
der eignen Spur vergessen,
sucht davon erst die Regeln auf!
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