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If prudes were as pure as they would have us believe, they would not rail so bitterly as they do. We do not thoroughly hate that which we do not thoroughly understand.

— William Maginn

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The safety of women consists in one circumstance: Men do not possess at the same time the knowledge of thirty-five and the blood of seventeen.

Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose.

Cold pig's face is one of the best things in the world for breakfast.

When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk.

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.

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