#sweetheart

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#lovers #sweetheart #untrue #love

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here. ↗

— Alvah Bessie

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Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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