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Quotes from The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality — Ronald Pearsall

1927–2005

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Scratch a Victorian personage, be it ever so lightly, and we are sure to find something nasty under the façade.

The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality (1969)

Some degree of repression is a condition of the human species, though unfashionable today in a country swinging its way if not to perdition at least to a mindless vacuity.

The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality (1969)

Germany was the stud of nineteenth-century monarchy.

The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality (1969)

People do not alter much in a hundred years; the difference lies in the accommodation to the age in which they live, in their susceptibility to outside forces.

The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ronald Pearsall (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.