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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.


Andre Maurois

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
ANDRE MAUROIS We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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GARY F EVANS... The other problem is that she hasn’t arrived.”
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KAREN MAITLAND Fate.
She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisi...
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The Q...
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The meaning of life
And the road of life
Is LOVE.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
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GARY F EVANS... We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a beni...
ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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ANZIA YEZIERSKA The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
DOUGLAS HORTON The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
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ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.
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EMMA GOLDMAN I'd love to wrestle a Bruiser Brody or Andre the Giant from the past.
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CARY ELWES I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.
JENNIFER LOPEZ It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
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MATTHEW HEINES We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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CESARE BECCARIA Romantic love is over-rated but that's what we want in life, someone who love us in a romantic way.
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JUDITH MCNAUGHT Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
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ERIC ANDRE It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
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ERIC ANDRE It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
ANDRE RIEU Not everyone can be an orphan.
ANDRE GIDE I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing...
ERIC ANDRE Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
ANDRE BRETON Words make love with one another.
ANDRE BRETON Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between...
ANDRE BRETON I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
ANDRE BRETON Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
ANDRE BRETON Fate.
She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisi...
BELLA ANDRE