The blend of admiration and compassion is one of the surest recipes for love.
Le mélange de l'admiration et de la piété est une des plus sûres recettes de l'affection.
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Ariel, ou La vie de Shelley (Paris: Grasset, 1923) pt. 2, ch. 15, as translated by Ella D'Arcy, Ariel: The Life of Shelley (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1924) ch. 33. Different translation reported in Frank S. Pepper (ed.) Handbook of 20th Century Quotations (1984) p. 13: "A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection."