It would be sweet to lie generous towards one we love, if that did not make a bargain of love. I know only… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

It would be sweet to lie generous towards one we love, if that did not make a bargain of love. I know only one way of gratifying this desire with the woman one loves without embittering love; it is to bestow our all upon her and to live at her expense. It remains to be seen whether there is any woman with regard to whom such conduct would not be unwise.

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