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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; b

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

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The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. – Joseph Collins

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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. – Elizabeth Bowen

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We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. – June Carter Cash

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…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. – John Sterling

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