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“Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.”

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Holbrook Jackson, born on December 31, 1874, and died in 1948, was an accomplished journalist. His career spanned various fields, including literature, politics, and social commentary. more

“Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest employments of his life to select and pursue a companion, and joins to possession the keenest pleasure, to rivalry the fiercest rage, and to solicitude an eternal melancholy. What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?”

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Book:The Sense of Beauty

Source: The Sense of Beauty

“Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.”

Love Rain Hot Sexy Smoke Dry Staying Peppers Slinkies

Author:Ros Asquith

“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“There's a beauty on the inside of you - and it shows on the outside too.”

Love Shows Beauty On The Inside

Author:Michael W. Smith

“All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.”

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Book:The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...

Source: The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ...

“In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.”

Love Beautiful Special Categories

Author:Terry Pratchett

“On the steps of the Federal Building we ran into Carmencita Ibanez, a classmate of ours and one of the nice things about being a member of a race with two sexes.”

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Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.”

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Author:Vivian Gornick

“Lovely girls are terribly insecure. They are convinced that their legs are too thick, and their bottoms are too big, and their bosoms are too small. They are conviced that their nose is the wrong shape, that their ears stick out, and that their eyes are too close together. They need a man who will tell them they are exactly right as they are. They do not believe him, but they need to hear it said.”

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Author:Richard J. Needham

“I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.”

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Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

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