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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

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

—Welsh proverb

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

—Stendhal, 1822

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924
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