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MORE THAN HIS SHARE

”Martha, does thee love me?” asked a quaker youth of one at whose shrine his heart's fondest feelings had been offered up

”Why, Seth,” answered she, ”we are commanded to love one another, are we not?”

”Aye, Martha; but does thee regardthat the world calls love?”

”I hardly knohat to tell thee, Seth; I have greatly feared thatone I have tried to bestow ht, perhaps, that thee was getting rather more than thy share”

--_Christian Observer_

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No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not

--_Rochefoucauld_

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LOVE

Naught sweeter is than love Whos less

If thou first taste of love, then shalt thou see Honey shall bitter be!

What roses are, they never knoho miss Fair Cytherea's kiss

--_Nossis, Greek_ _Translated by Lilla Cabot Perry_

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How often love is maintained by wealth: When all is spent adversity then breeds The discontent

--_Herrick_

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The moment one is in love one becomes so amiable

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