"much" vs. "a lot of"

[Benjamin Barrett]

Google gives only 22 hits for "live well, laugh often, love a lot" as opposed to 182K hits for the "much" version. Never say never, but it's pretty close to it.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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On Feb 16, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

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> At 2/15/2014 09:17 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
>> One more observation to add: Looking at the inspirational/motivational
>> decorations in my son's guidance counselor's office, I realized that
>> it's always "Live well, laugh often, love much," never "~ ~, love a lot."
>
> Have you interviewed LDS's, polygynists, polyandrists, and rock stars?
>
> Joel

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