There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
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Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise. . .
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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