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course of true love never did run smooth

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course of true love never did run smooth
Prov. People in love with each other often have to overcome difficulties in order to be together. (From Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.) Jill: What am I going to do? My boyfriend's job is transferring him to Texas, and I have to stay here. Jane: The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Of course, Shakespeare knew all this, as he wrote, “The course of true love never did run smooth ….
ASHLAND - "The course of true love never did run smooth," Lysander says to Hermia at the beginning of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," although he has no idea just how bumpy things can get when mortals run into the woods and get caught up in a spat between the king and queen of the fairies.
Dating has always been an imprecise science and, inasmuch as the Bard reminds us that the course of true love never did run smooth, Cupid's arrows often miss their mark.
 
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