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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
  -- Goethe...
• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• The only thing to do with advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
  -- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband...
• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it.
  It is never any good to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband...
• Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
  I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite- the ideal made real. -- Carlyle...
• The real thing doesn't advertise.
• A good deed never goes unpunished. -- Gore Vidal