“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
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American drama critic and magazine editor 1882–1958Related quotes
“A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.”
“She enjoys extremes, but in life her emotions are always in check.”
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“How many deserters there are from the rigours of virtue, how few from the cause of love!”
Combien trouve-t-on de déserteurs de la sévère vertu et combien en trouvez-vous peu de l'amour?
Part 1, p. 123; translation p. 64.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), Egoism and Altruism, pp. 117