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To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.
John Lyly
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Oh wearisome Condition of Humanity!
Born under one law, to another bound:
Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound:
What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws?
Passion and reason, self-division cause.
Is it the mark, or Majesty of Power
To make offences that it may forgive?
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.
Yagyū Munenori
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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