Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the e

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. – Lord Chesterfield

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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield

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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. – William B. Yeats

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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag

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It is not sex that gives the pleasure but the lover. – Marge Piercy

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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. – J. Edgar Hoover, attributed

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