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

—Tacitus, c. 100

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

—Jonathan Swift, 1738

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

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

—Stendhal, 1822

What reason weaves, by passion is undone.

—Alexander Pope, 1972

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

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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