Love and lust: words that tell the difference

WITH the coming of Valentine’s Day, love warms our hearts.

Love and lust: words that tell the difference
Fri, 11 Feb, 2005 - 00:00

In these enlightened times few would knowingly blur the distinction between love and desire without awareness of the consequences. I think it was Lord Chesterfield who described the high cost of purely erotic endeavours as follows:

1 The pleasure is momentary.

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