Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
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Ann Landers Quote
“The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.”
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