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Familiarity
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“Familiarity breeds ... ”
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“What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?”
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“Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.”
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“Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.”
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“Familiarity breeds consent.”
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“That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.”
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“The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.”
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“I like familiarity. In me it does not breed contempt. Only more familiarity.”
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“... the way of his own mother is the natural way to a child's thinking; all else seems foreign and remarkable.”
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“Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.”
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“The familiar is insistent and deadly.”
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“The same fear ... has kept me stuck in life so many times before, afraid to move forward, to take a step that would free me from the ordinary, the mundane, the insufferable. A crippling fear that deadens my potential and limits my relationship with the world. It's so easy to cling to the familiar, even when it's deplorable.”
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“After a certain age — and for some of us that can be very young — there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before ...”
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“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”
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“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”
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“Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.”
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“No man is a hero to his valet.”