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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/caresses-expressions-of-one-sort-or-another-are-necessary-to-the-life/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of trees. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gaby/caresses-expressions-of-one-sort-or-another-are-necessary-to-the-life-2/)

[Gaby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gaby/)

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