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Indeed, the future generation itself is already stirring in the careful, definite, and apparently capricious selection for the satisfaction of the instinct of sex which we call love.
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And you will observe, that it is not merely the instinctive life, nor the intellectual life, nor the moral life, but it is principally our nobler affections -- that existence, that state of being, which we call love.
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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But she felt safe for him through the strength of what she called her love.
Different Girls Various
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Precisely so is it with that sacred energy which we call love.
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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They had nothing in common but a rebellious discontent with life, and this glamorous bewildering thing, so much stronger than they, so far beyond their comprehension, which they called their love.
The Blood of the Conquerors Harvey Fergusson
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Always she had felt a good-natured contempt for girls who threw away substantial advantages for what they called love.
The Highgrader William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Nature has decreed that they should feel something which they call love.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Will [Illustrator] Gref�� 1906
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You think I am worthy of only a kind of candy that you carry about for agreeable children, which you call love.
Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Robert Herrick 1903
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I feel the blindness which has crept upon them -- those poor women -- as you have sown the air with the dust of the passion which you call love.
Michel and Angele — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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I feel the blindness which has crept upon them -- those poor women -- as you have sown the air with the dust of the passion which you call love.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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