There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly. ~ Ch. 8
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Love affairs are either serious or foolish; gossip about them is intrusive or silly.
- In plain terms
- Love is earnest or folly; gossip is intrusive or foolish.
- What can you take from it?
- Avoid gossip; treat love seriously.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is gossip ever justified?
- How do you define a serious love?
Another view
It polarizes love into only two categories.
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