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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. (Logan P. Smith)[][]
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. (George Bernard Shaw)[][]
I never met a man I didn't like. (Will Rogers)[][]
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)[][]
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. (Jean Baptiste Lacordaire)[][]
A woman's life is a history of the affections. (Washington Irving)[][]
Affection, like melancholy, magnifiestrifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscop (Leigh Hunt)[][]
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 roo (Nathaniel Hawthorne)[][]
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis, vanish - all duties even. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)[][]
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