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“Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
“Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Tom got more cuffs and kisses that day—according to Aunt Polly's varying moods—than he had earned before in a year; and he hardly knew which expressed the most gratefulness to God and affection for himself.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.” Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or famished for the want of affection. I know this to be true.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I never change, except in my affections.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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