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La Rochefoucauld 076: There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, ...
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There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it. ["Oh Love! no habitant of earth thou art-- An unseen seraph, we believe in thee-- A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart,-- But never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form as it should be." {--Lord Byron, }Childe Harold, {Canto} iv., stanza 121.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_076
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