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Posted by ESC on April 23, 2003

In Reply to: Fixing typo posted by Henry on April 23, 2003

: : : : Can you please help me figure out where/how this phrase originated? Thank you...Sax

: : : LOVE CONQUERS ALL - "Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love." Eclogues, X. l. 69. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) 70-19 B.C. From Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett and Justin Kaplan, general editor (Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2002).

: In Chaucer's Canterbury tales, the prioress wore a brooch saying Amor vincit omnia - Love conquers all.

: Ful fetys was hir cloke, as I was war;
: Of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar
: A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene,
: An theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene,
: On which ther was first write a crowned A,
: And after Amor vincit omnia.

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