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

—Stendhal, 1822

One may like the love and despise the lover.

—George Farquhar, 1706

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

—Pablo Neruda, 1924

A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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
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