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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. -- Confucius, Analec
• Jana's Law of Love: A dandelion from a lover means more than an orchid from a friend.
• Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Twelfth Night -- Act iii, Sc.
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• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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• It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Richard Cumberland (1631-1718) -- in G.
  Horne The Duty of Contending for the Faith (1786) p. 21, n....
• There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.