Dating Advice From The Classics

Who needs Cosmo?

1. The Great Gatsby

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If you love someone, do anything for them. Even if that means buying a huge expensive house just to stare at them through a telescope.

2. Pride and Prejudice

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The best way to a man's heart is by playing hard to get.

3. The Picture of Dorian Grey

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Loving yourself: good. Becoming infatuated with your fleeting beauty: bad.

4. Gone With the Wind

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Appreciate what you have before it walks out the door and it's too late.

5. Madame Bovary

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Don't base your relationship expectations on what you see in books, movies, and on TV. This path leads only to arsenic-abetted misery.

6. Wuthering Heights

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You can't help who you fall deeply, obsessively and madly in love with. Maybe just try to tone down the 'obsessive' bit.

7. Rebecca

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Things aren't always what the seem at first glance. And also, if you find yourself in love with a man who killed his first wife, run away.

8. Romeo and Juliet

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Sometimes everyone around you will be against your love. But don't act too fast.

9. The Bell Jar

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If you are having trouble finding a man, the problem may be you.

10. Anna Karenina

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Sometimes the socially awkward guy you ignored in high school turns out to be the most kindhearted companion.

11. The Velveteen Rabbit

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True love takes time.

12. Great Expectations

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The classic version of 'He's Just Not That Into You'.