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My valentine I pray that thou wilt be, Not for a day, but for eternity. - Charles Nelson Douglas It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. - Washington Irving All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson. - James Russell Lowell And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Now all nature seemed in love, and birds had drawn their valentines. - Sir Henry Wotton
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