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Affinity Quotes

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, MIT Press

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.39

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.303

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matter pertaining to religion”, p.202

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36, Lulu.com