"Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility."
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"I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me."
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"Affection is the broadest basis of a good life."
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"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
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"This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime"
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"Nothing really affected me until Elvis."
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"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."
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"We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue."
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"But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."
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"It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get."
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"None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy."
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"Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love."
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"It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen."
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"…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way."
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"Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection."
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"The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion."
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"Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?"
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"We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection."
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"The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps."
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"The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others."
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