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• Love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life.
  David Jerold ['Wit and Opinions', 1859]...
• Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. JEROME
• Love is sentimental measles.
• Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; 'T is woman's whole existence.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 194...