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“The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 259.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c7c9ed5319aa7dcdf3b37e764151db66049ee2a8eba275164a5109a93ae897ac
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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