Quote#Love
For I hate, yet love thee, so
Quote byCharles Lamb · 1775–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Farewell to Tobacco (1805).
English (original)
For I hate, yet love thee, so, That, whichever thing I show, The plain truth will seem to be A constrained hyperbole, And the passion to proceed More from a mistress than a weed.
— Charles Lamb
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