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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

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

—Welsh proverb

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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
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