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"He insisted that the love that was of real value in the world was / n't interesting, and that the love that was interesting was n't always / admirable. Love that happened to a person like the measles or fits, and / was really of no particular credit to itself or its victims, was the / sort that got into the books and was made much of; whereas the kind that / was attained by the endeavour of true souls, and that had wear in it, / and that made things go right instead of tangling them up, was too much / like duty to make satisfactory reading for people of sentiment. " -- E. S. / MARTIN: My Cousin Anthony.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is / another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.