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• At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth
  But like of each thing that in season grows. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act i, Sc....
• O Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!
  -- George Colman, the Younger (1762-1836) -- Love laughs at Locksmiths, Act ii, Song...
• Love is a rose, but you'd better not pick it. It only grows when it's on the vine.
• Can one ever remember love ? It's like trying to summon up the smell of a rose in a cellar.
  You might see a rose, but never the perfume. -- Arthur Mille...
• QOTD: "Like this rose, our love will wilt and die.
• Love is the blossum where there blows Everything that lives or grows. -- Giles Fletche
• Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
  -- Mark A. Overby...
• The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love; The taint of earth, the odor of the skies is in it.
  -- Bailey...
• What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -- Pearl Bailey