“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady… 1884–1962

Anita Moorjani (1959) writer

“We do too little feel each others' pain;
We do relax too much the social chain
That binds us to each other; slight the care
There is for grief in which we have no share.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

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The Golden Violet (1827)

“She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Written in a letter to Francois Lafargue in Bordeaux, 12 November 1866 as published in MECW Volume 42, p. 334. as "That a man who does not love wine will never be good for anything," which was a restating of the phrase wine, women and song that was attributed to Martin Luther at that time.
Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1866/letters/66_11_12.htm