#caress

Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections. ↗

— William Cavendish

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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. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

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Caress the detail, the divine detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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A love song is just a caress set to music. ↗

— Sigmund Romberg

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