“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished" – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished" – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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