Obscuritie in affection of words and indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish.
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Preface to Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595).George Chapman
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You too need the lecture on the childishness of coupling? Of course it's childish. Family life is, today more than ever, when the ethos is created substantially by the children. It's even worse when there are no children around. Because the childish adult replaces the child. Coupled life and family life bring out everything that's childish in everyone involved. Why do they have to sleep night after night in the same bed? Why must they be on the phone to each other five times a day? Why are they always with each other? The forced deference is certainly childish. The unnatural deference.
Philip Roth
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
Judith Miss Manners Martin
This indigested vomit of the Sea,
Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.Andrew Marvell
Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.Joanna Baillie
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Milan Kundera
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