Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The imma... - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other."

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