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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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George Lyman Kittredge

George Lyman Kittredge

Born: February 28, 1860
Died: July 23, 1941 (aged 81)
Bio: George Lyman Kittredge was a celebrated professor and scholar of English literature at Harvard University.
Known for:
  1. An advanced English grammar, with exercises (1913)
  2. Witchcraft in old and New England (1929)
  3. Notes on witchcraft (1907)
  4. Words and Their Ways in English Speech (1901)

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