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On sexual intercourse:
The pleasure is momentary, the pains are infinite, and the posture is ridiculous.
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A good sonnet appears to be a confession-in a word either patently artificial, and then it is bad, or good, then it sounds like autobiography.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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George Lyman Kittredge
Born:
February 28, 1860
Died:
July 23, 1941
(aged 81)
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George Lyman Kittredge was a celebrated professor and scholar of English literature at Harvard University.
Known for:
An advanced English grammar, with exercises (1913)
Witchcraft in old and New England (1929)
Notes on witchcraft (1907)
Words and Their Ways in English Speech (1901)
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