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“Once in a hotel dining-room,” wrote Lewis, “I said, rather too loudly, ‘I loathe prunes.’ ‘So do I,’ came an unexpected six-year-old voice from another table. Sympathy was instantaneous. Neither of us thought it funny. We both knew that prunes are far too nasty to be funny. That is the proper meeting between man and child as independent personalities.”

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

C. S. Lewis

 In my experience it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate, the people who "happen to be there".  Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.  
CS Lewis - Four Loves