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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.
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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.
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 tide sent into
the cleft of rock Neptune's
polyfingered hand of
welcome.
The tide sent into
the cleft of rock Neptune's
polyfingered hand of
welcome.
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.
I never met a man I didn't like.
I never met a man I didn't like.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we read more
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
