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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed read more
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
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.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. read more
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that read more
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be read more
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
