Quote#Love
The world is fill'd with folly and sin
Quote byRobert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton · 1831–1891
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Wanderer (1859), Book ii: In France, "Aux Italiens", stanza xxvi, p. 146..
English (original)
The world is fill'd with folly and sin, And Love must cling where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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