"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."
-Havelock Ellis
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"The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.“
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"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all."
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"Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm."
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"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
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"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
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"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
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