"Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs."
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"We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen."
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"Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government."
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"But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved."
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"Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated."
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"No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact."
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"A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value."
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"For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world."
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"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
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"A girl's affections should never be won unsought."
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"A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love."
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"He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved."
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"The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections."
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"Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor."
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"I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me."
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"With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him."
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"There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate."
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"Love requited is a short circuit."
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"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections."
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"The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection."
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