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Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387
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