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Most people would rather give than get affection.
Affection
Aristotle

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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Affection
Jane Austen

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Envy
Francis Bacon

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Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [Colossians 3:2]
Affection
Bible

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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Rewards
Buddha

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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Hypocrisy
Charles Dickens

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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
Leaders and Leadership
Benjamin Disraeli

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Humor
George Eliot

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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Wit
George Eliot

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
Marriage
Hitopadesa

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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
Love
Josiah Gilbert Holland

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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
Affection
Washington Irving

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Love
St. Jerome

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Certainty
John Keats

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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Affection
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Affection
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
Grief
James Martineau

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A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Affection
Andre Maurois

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The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.
Leaders and Leadership
Motto

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
Happiness
Duchess Prazlin

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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Hatred
Sir Walter Raleigh

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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
Sun
Arthur Rimbaud

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Humor
Leo Rosten

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Love
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Love
Robert Southey

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