"Monsieur, beware of love! It is lying in ambush everywhere; it is watching for you at every corner; all its snares are laid, all its weapons are sharpened, all its guiles are prepared! Beware of love! Beware of love! It is more dangerous than brandy, bronchitis or pleurisy! It never forgives and makes everybody commit irreparable follies.
"Yes, monsieur, I say that the Government should put large public notices on the walls, with the words: 'Spring is here again. Frenchmen, beware of love!'
"However, as the government will not do this, I must supply its place, and I say to you: 'Beware of love!' for it is just about to seize you, and it is my duty to inform you of it, just as in Russia they inform any one that his nose is frozen."
- Excerpted from In the Spring, by Guy de Maupassant
"Yes, monsieur, I say that the Government should put large public notices on the walls, with the words: 'Spring is here again. Frenchmen, beware of love!'
"However, as the government will not do this, I must supply its place, and I say to you: 'Beware of love!' for it is just about to seize you, and it is my duty to inform you of it, just as in Russia they inform any one that his nose is frozen."
- Excerpted from In the Spring, by Guy de Maupassant
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mrmuller:
Exactly.
starbuck42:
I'm heartbroken. I might never recover. You best think of ways to make it up to me. 