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Andre Maurois
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Aristotle
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
George Eliot
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
J. B. Yeats
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.
Jane Austen
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Kahlil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Leigh Hunt
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
Leigh Hunt
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
Libbie Fudim
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
Logan P. Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Logan Pearsall Smith
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Nan Fairbrother
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Pindar
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.
Saiom Shriver
The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.
 
 
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