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What

 you may not knowaboutValentine’s Day

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Charles, Duke of Orleans, was one of thefirst people to send a ‘valentine’. In 1415 hesent several rhyming love letters or

‘valentines’ to his wife in France from theTower of London, where he had beenimprisoned after the Battle of Agincourt.

Love is not finding someone to live with,

It's finding someone you can't live without.

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In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew

names from a bowl to see who their valentineswould be. They would wear these names on theirsleeves for one week – hence the phrase ‘wear your heart on your sleeve’.

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White roses are for true love. Red roses

are for passion. Yellow roses are forfriendship. Black roses mean farewell.

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People used to believe that if a woman saw arobin flying overhead on Valentine's Day, it

meant she would marry a sailor. If she saw asparrow, she would marry a poor man and bevery happy. If she saw a goldfinch, she wouldmarry a millionaire.

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It was thought that birds chose their mate forthe year on February 14th. Doves and pigeons

mate for life and so were used as symbols offidelity.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

(Willa Cather) 

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What did the boy squirrel say to the girlsquirrel on Valentine’s Day?

‘I’m nuts about you!’

It is never too late to fall in love.

(Sandy Wilson) 

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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Sydney Smith

 Love is the wisdom of the fool and the

 folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson

 Better to have loved 

 and lost than to have never loved at all.

Saint Augustine

without love is like a tree

without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

To write a good love letter you ought to

 begin without knowing what you mean to say

 and to finish without knowing what you

 have written.

 Jean Jacques Rousseau

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There is a comfort in the strength of love:

'Twill make a thing endurable which elseWould overset the brain or break the heart.

William Wordsworth

Where love rules there is no will to power; and 

where power predominates there love islacking.

The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung

 Immature love says I love you because

 I need you.

 Mature love says I need you because

 I love you.

 Erich Fromm

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When love and skill work togetherexpect a masterpiece.

 John Ruskin

To love someone is to see

 a miracle invisible to others.Francois Mauriac

 Love means

never having to say you’re sorry.

 Erich Segal

Love is not finding someone to live with,It's finding someone you can't live without.

(Rafael Ortiz) 

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For you see, each day I love you more.Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

(Rosemonde Gerard) 

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.(Author Unknown) 

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

(Victor Hugo) 

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home.Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door

neighbor.

(Mother Teresa) 

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