Quote#Love
For nine women out of ten must have some kind of romance or other, to…
Quote byRichard Doddridge Blackmore · 1825–1900
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lorna Doone (1869), Ch. 49.
English (original)
For nine women out of ten must have some kind of romance or other, to make their lives endurable; and when their love has lost this attractive element, this soft dew-fog (if such it be), the love itself is apt to languish; unless its bloom be well replaced by the budding hopes of children. Now Master Stickles neither had, nor wished to have, any children.
— Richard Doddridge Blackmore
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