#affection

Jealousy is the grave of affection. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ↗

— George Eliot

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If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. ↗

— Michael Lewis

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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often. ↗

— Larry David

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