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“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart” Jane Austen, Emma
“The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at times, almost unbearable.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“There is thus an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Love is fragile . . . but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love words, the tendernesses learned, are treasured up for the next lover.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
“There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“there is no word tender enough to be your name” James Joyce, Dubliners

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