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“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Maxim 76.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f273a11de8570e8830310e94cc82f7a5efd780a251e1fd6e35e44d4b60005c3f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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