#intimates

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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#formed #individuals #intimates #our #parents

Intimates are predestined. ↗

— Henry Adams

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#predestined