"If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable."

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“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”

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"Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature1749–1832

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"Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. Discipline is guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child."

— Bette Davis

Entertainment1908–1989

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"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was t…"

— Jodi Picoult

Literature1966

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