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A boy’s love comes from a full heart; a man’s is more often the result of a full stomach.
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“A boy’s love comes from a full heart; a man’s is more often the result of a full stomach.”

Jerome K. Jerome

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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Date
1886
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The contrast punctures mature romantic eloquence by suggesting comfort and appetite can masquerade as passion, while youthful awkwardness may reveal more direct feeling.

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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On Being in Love”; the narrator contrasts youthful shyness with the polished declarations of older men.

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