Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram -- lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull -- he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins -- that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path -- he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales -- happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.
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Father A Son's First Hero, A Daughter's first Love
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She was more beautiful than thy first love, But now lies under boards.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be is a man's last romance.
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Love
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
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