"It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful."

-- Euripides

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“Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.”
“All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.”
“Walk straight ahead look straight ahead don't stop don't pose sharp turns be confident love yourself.”
“I rewrite everything, almost idiotically. I rewrite and work and work, and rewrite and rewrite some more.”
“Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.”
“Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.”
“I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.”
“Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1873). “A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present”, p.49

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