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A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist. 

—Jacques Lacan

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

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

—Stendhal, 1822

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor
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