A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.