"On Being in Love"
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once...No, we never sicken with love twice. Cupid spends no second arrow on the same heart.
— Jerome K. Jerome
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once...No, we never sicken with love twice. Cupid spends no second arrow on the same heart." in the context of ""On Being in Love"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Jerome K. Jerome" (Quotes, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886))
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About Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.
About Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.
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