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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

—Abraham Lincoln

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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