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It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Lovers
Fun
Making
Often
Much
Quarrel
Quarrels
Sensitive

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