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Men speak conveniently of love when it serves their purpose, and when it doesn't, it is a burden to them.
— Maid Marian • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker says men talk about love when it helps them and treat it as a weight when it doesn't. It's a pointed, cynical observation: love as a convenient word, picked up and put down depending on what the person gets out of it.
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