It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!
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