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School sex education told you everything about the sexual act
Written on April 20, 2013
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But according to Julia Cole… it is not the broad technical details that modern married couples lack so much as the artistry. A wag once commented that school sex education told you everything about the sexual act—except for the fact that you would very likely enjoy it. Ross Clark, Not tonight, darling,
The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing
Written on April 16, 2013
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The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. (The English take their pleasures sadly). [Anglica gens est optima flens et pessima ridens.] Thomas Hearne, Reliquiæ Hearnianæ (Ed. 1857), Volume I, p. 136. (Source referred to Chamberlayne, Anglicæ Notitia (1669). From old Latin saying quoted in Kornmannus, De
The English amuse themselves sadly as is the custom of their country
Written on April 16, 2013
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They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as is the custom of their country. [Ils s’amusaient tristement selon la coutume de leur pays.] Attributed to Froissart. Not found in his works. Same in Duc de Sully’s Memoirs (1630). (“l’usage” instead of “coutume.”) See Emerson—English Traits, Chapter VIII. Hazlitt—Sketches and Essays. Merry England. (“se
