Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. by 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." - Copy to Clipboard
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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