"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."

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W. H. Auden

#Love Quotes #Affection Quotes #Equal Quotes

“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]”
“The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.”

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.”
“And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream”
“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
“The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.”
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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