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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

—Welsh proverb

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

—Andrea Dworkin, 1978

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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