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A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962
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