To love or adore: which word to choose?

Dutronc likes "

magazine girls

", children like "

pancakes when they are well done

" and Toto doesn't like soup.

Personally, I like Sundays at my mother-in-law's house and I don't like sitting around doing nothing.

Because this verb to

love

, we use it in all sauces.

Sometimes, we moderate the meaning with an adverb: if I say that "

I like

" the new haircut of my wife whose hairdresser has just massacred the curls, that does not engage me.

The same goes for the checkered scarf that was just given to me.

When you like something, you are polite.

And this young girl, if you think you can reassure her with an "

I like you

", offer her handkerchiefs.

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If we like it a lot, it's better.

And if we love love at all, we do not trumpet it.

Or we do like Chimene (Le Cid, III, 4): “

Go, I don't hate you.

But there is really only Rodrigue to be satisfied with an understatement!

To love with passionate love

To adore

is to love in a big way.

It is to idolize.

It has a Cornelian side: "

You that

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