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A maid that laughs is half taken.

—John Ray, 1670

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

—Tacitus, c. 100

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

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

—Michel Foucault, c. 1982

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972
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