“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

1853
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)

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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

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