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Quotation #584 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)  

Notes about this Quotation

  • This is not an error, but a play on Tennyson's famous line from "In Memoriam": "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." [note by Michael Moncur, August 25, 2004]

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