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  • My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.

    - Edward Gibbon
    Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.8.

  • Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      DonJuan. Man and Superman, act 3.

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