My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one It seemed not so wild a dream . . .
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Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
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