Happy Valentine

The young people of today have no soul, they have the understatement instead.
Once if a youth wanted to declare his love to a girl, he knelt down, told her that she was the sweetest, the most charming and ravishing person in the world, that she had something in her, something peculiar and individual which only a few hundred thousand other women had and that he wouldn't have been able to live one more minute without her.
Often, to give a little more emphasis to the statement, he shoot himself on the spot.
This used to be a normal, week-day declaration of love in the more temperamental countries.
Now a day the boy pats his adored one in the back and says softly:
" I do not object to you, you know."
If he is quite mad with passion, he may add:
" I rather fancy you, in fact."
Id he wants to marry a girl he says:
" I say...would you?..."
If he wants to make an indecent proposal:
"I say...what about..."