"Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want."

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When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon