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Fondness Quotes

The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared

The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals.

John B. S. Haldane
Beetles, Fondness
"What is Life? The Layman's View of Nature". Book by John B. S. Haldane, p. 248, 1949.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Poor, Substitutes, Fondness
Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.55

God does not 'love' us without liking us.

Dallas Willard
Doe, Fondness

The more things for which you develop a fondness the richer the life you live.

Dan Buettner
Fondness
Dan Buettner (2010). “Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way”, p.57, National Geographic Books

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Samuel Johnson
Merit, Fondness
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.227

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Mother, Knows, Fondness

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