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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; read more
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.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the read more
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.
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
I never met a man I didn't like.
I never met a man I didn't like.
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at read more
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all read more
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.
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
