You couldn't make it up dept. no.57: believe it or not, an intelligent person wrote the following:

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Nobody with a modicum of self-control HAS to fall in love

(The author of the Roscesvalles blog, to be precise.)

Which goes to show that intelligent people can write the most fantastically idiotic things when they go outside their own areas of experience. IN other words, if you have never been in love, shut up about it.

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Rmember that Shakespeare made Romeo and Juliet about fifteen. They were also the heirs of two very great houses, and as good as hereditary princes in their city.

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Oh, I know they were in characters-- they were still prats.