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• Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

  William Ralph Inge

  Grief, Stronger, World

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• Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Light, Heaven

  "Mark Twain's notebook".

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• The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mind, Study, Ecology

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• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Art, Realizing

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Mind, Enjoy

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• It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Women, Morality

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Intelligent, Men, Missing

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• The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

  John Ralston Saul

  Jobs, Expression, Rude

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Violation, Synonym

  1987 Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

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• The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

  C. S. Lewis

  Indulge In, Trying, Unions

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

  Philip Larkin

  Firsts, Bans, Ends

  "Annus Mirabilis" l. 1 (1974)

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• Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Math, Leisure, Problem

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• trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Years, Tree, Matter

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.2244, e-artnow

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• Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Lying, Men

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• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Latin

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• The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life. The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in man's construction is this: During your entire life you shall be under inflexible limits and restrictions, sexually. During twenty-three days in every month (in absence of pregnancy) from the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick is to receive the candle. Competent every day, competent every night. Also she wants that candle - yearns for it, longs for it, hankers after it, as commanded by the law of God in her heart.

  Mark Twain

  Sex, Pregnancy, Heart

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• I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Character, Vision, World

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sex, Children, Order

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• Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sunset, Fire, Self

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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• The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughter, Humor, Ideas

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• Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

  Karl Marx

  Needs, Language, Consciousness

  "The German Ideology". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. III, 30, 1845-1846.

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• True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

  William James

  Ideas, Consistency, Quarters

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.75, 谷月社

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