Vulgar words in Little Essays of Love and Virtue (Page 1)
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The art of making love and the art of being virtuous;--two aspects of the great art of living that are, rightly regarded, harmonious and not at variance--remain, indeed, when we cease to misunderstand them, essentially the same in all ages and among all peoples.
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It is not surprising that the young girl sometimes made love to the knight under these circumstances, nor is it surprising that he, engaged in an arduous life and trained to disdain feminine attractions, often failed to respond.
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They include not only all that makes love a gracious and beautiful erotic art, but the whole element of pleasure in so far as pleasure is more than a mere animal gratification.
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But during all this time the husband has never really made love to his wife; he has not even understood what courtship in the intimate sense means; love as an art has no existence for him; he has loved his wife according to his imperfect knowledge, but he has never so much as realised that his knowledge was imperfect.