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Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.178, Penguin
Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have? Probably better, Lancelot said. Certainly safer.