Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be…

Walter Lippmann
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Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1960). A Preface to Morals, p.308, Transaction Publishers
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Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1960). A Preface to Morals, p.308, Transaction Publishers

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