Charles Horton Cooley

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    If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize—any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)