Quote#Love
Love counts not its labour nor can it weigh its tenderness in the…
Quote byH. Rider Haggard · 1856–1925
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Cleopatra (1889).
English (original)
Love counts not its labour nor can it weigh its tenderness in the scale of purchase. That which it has it gives, and craves for more to give and give, till the soul's infinity be drained.
— H. Rider Haggard
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