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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for t

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. – Havelock Ellis

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In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. – Havelock Ellis

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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. – Mark Twain, letter to Joe Goodman, April 1891

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