"When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion."

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Source : 'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 2, sc. 2

George Etherege

#Passion Quotes #Violent Quotes #Torture Quotes

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Source : Thomas Tusser (1848). “Some of the Five hundred points of good husbandry, newly corrected and ed. by H.M.W. [2 issues].”, p.38

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