[Ads-l] "Love makes the world go 'round"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

One of the many topics that went past in my blog posting yesterday:

"What makes the world go 'round?"
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/06/what-makes-the-world-go-round/

It was used as a familiar saying already in Gilbert & Sullivan's 1882 _Iolanthe_, as I point out in this posting. Just idle curiosity, but is there any research on the origins of the formula? (Not the general idea that love is all-important, Amor Vincit Omnia and all that, but this very specific form of expression of the idea.)

arnold

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