“Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous groan,
The panting lover's fainting moan,
Just in the happy minute.”
“Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore.”
“Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.”
“This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;
Then away with these nasty devices, and show
How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.”
“God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.”
“Man differs more from man than man from beast”
“A kind of losing loadum is their game,
Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.”
“All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.”
“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense”
“How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell.”
“Merely for safety, after fame we thirst,
For all men would be cowards if they durst.”
“Years ago when he had been at college, Edward had shown him how to change sheets from under a sleeping man. Harper had spent a few weeks after that stealing the sheets from under his fellow seminary students.”
“You could have all the crazy thoughts you wanted, as long as you smiled and kept them to yourself.”
“I was messed up when it came to relationships, not happy with what I told myself I wanted, yet unwilling to take the risk for more.”
“The negative thoughts inside my head blown into a multiple rays of hope for my goals in life; adding some motivated aspects of my ambition triggered my inner sanctum to prolong the basic human emotions.”
“Every woman wants to get married and have children.”
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