Love has no power to look forward - the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Love has no power to look forward - the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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