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Affection
Most people would rather
give than get affection.
?Aristotle
In nine cases out of ten,
a woman had better show more
affection than she feels.
?Jane Austen
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.
?Leigh Hunt
A difference of tastes in jokes is
a great strain on the affections.
?George Eliot
The affections are like lightning:
you cannot tell where they will
strike till they have fallen.
?Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
A slight touch of friendly malice
and amusement towards those we
love keeps our affections
for them from turning flat.
?Logan Pearsall Smith
I wash my hands of those
who imagine chattering to be
knowledge, silence to be ignorance,
and affection to be art.
?Kahlil Gibran
Every gift, though it be small, is in
reality great if given with affection.
?Pindar
We may not return the affection
of those who like us, but we always
respect their good judgment.
?Libbie Fudim
Always when I see a man
fond of praise I always think
it is because he is an affectionate
man craving for affection.
?J. B. Yeats
A mixture of admiration and
pity is one of the
surest recipes for affection.
?Andre Maurois
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.
?Nan Fairbrother
You, yourself, as much as anybody
in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
?Buddha
