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Sex

Promiscuity blunts pleasure's edge, just as drunkards taste their liquor least.
Developers build because parents beget. Suburbs sprawl because lovers do.
Modern people have used their sexual liberation to enslave themselves to sex.
When a couple comes home from work too tired for lovemaking, they are choosing television over a child's existence.
We were gold medalists in the sperm Olympics.

open quote Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism... inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism