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Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality. Douglas Noël Adams		Friday Oct 17, 2025
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None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair. Lord Lyttleton

Quote Author: Lord Lyttleton

	Lord Lyttleton
	(1709-1773) Epigram.

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None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair, But love can hope where reason would despair.

The lover in the husband may be lost.

What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition? To be fair.

Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle.

Women, like princes, find few real friends.

For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.