The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
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Jess C. Scott
We're staying together, " he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.
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Rick Riordan
I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
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Jess C. Scott
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
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Karl Lagerfeld
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.
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Jess C. Scott
More Quotes By John Taliaferro
John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.
John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.
Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt
Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.
John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
