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• We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
  -- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach...
• This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• If they ever give you a brief ... attack the medical evidence.
  Remember, the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastric troubles....
• That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
• Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. -- Stendhal
• My aunt's had a terrible time. First off, she got tonsillitis, followed by appendicitis and pneumonia.
  After that she got rheumatism, and to top it off they gave her hypodermics and inoculations....
• The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. -- Israel Zangwill
• In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love.
  -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Jua...
• Love's a matter of degrees; that's true. (That's true!
  ) It loses it's perspective when its taken to extremes....