Familiarity

“When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.”

“I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.”

“A metaphor is a word used in an unfamiliar context to give us a new insight; a good metaphor moves us to see our ordinary world in an extraordinary way.”

“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”

“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”

“Familiarity is the thing -- the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness”

“I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.”

“Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.”

“And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.”

“Staled by frequence, shrunk by usage into commonest commonplace!”