“Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Source: The Lucky One
“I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter, Ch. 6.
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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616Related quotes
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