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-- Rita Mae Brown Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
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Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Love is stronger than justice.
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- unknown To love another person is to help them love God.
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