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We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

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It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

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Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the u...more