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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706
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