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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Much
Green
Wood
Love
Friendship
Steady
Married
Flames
Comfortable
Smoke
Crackling
Fire
Woods
Courtship
Friends
Intense
Matrimony
Upon
Proof
Blazing
Hope
Particularly
Flame

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