AND THEN HE BEGAN TO WRITE - epistolaerum

Friday, August 1, 2014

The paramour who has his way pays for it in extreme danger, and if he is thwarted he pays in suffering: if he is successful he has the law to fear, and if he is disappointed he buys his disappointment at the price of love. Yet it is better to get what one wants and be afraid than to be spurned and grieve.

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