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  • All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

    - Edmund Burke
      Two Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory, 9th edn.

  • I'll come no more behind your scenes,David: for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      In conversation with the actor-manager David Garrick. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

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