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Page 246 - It is only worth and excellence that make a man worthy to be loved by a lady. 19. If love once begins to diminish, it quickly fades away as a rule, and rarely recovers itself. 20. A real lover is always the prey of anxiety and malaise. 21. The affection of love invariably increases under the influence of jealousy. 22. When one of the lovers begins to entertain suspicion of the other, the jealousy and the love increase at once. 23. A person who is the prey of love eats little and sleeps little. 24....
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