God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is! — Samuel Butler (novelist) · Skopia

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God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!

Samuel Butler (novelist)

1902

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Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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