A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar but in a city with its blaze of light

In the country, the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers biding its time.

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life if it were broadcast would not fill

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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    Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

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    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth - I count that something of a miracle.

    To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth - I count that something of a miracle. 

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