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To say a man is fallen in love,—or that he is deeply in love,—or up to the ears in love ... carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:Mthis is ... Plato's opinion, which ... I hold to be damnable and heretical.

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1762), vol. 6, ch. 37, eds. Melvyn New and Joan New, University of Florida Press (1978).

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