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• Young men and young women may work systematically six days in the week and rise fresh in the morning, but let them attend modern dances for only a few hours each evening and see what happens.
  The Waltz, Polka, Gallop and other dances of the same kind will be disastrous in their effects to both sexes....
• All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions.
  .. and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity....
• What a change a few years makes. A kid who won't allow water to go above his wrists suddenly starts taking two showers each day, each of which lasts over a half hour.
• The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
  (Maxim 259)...
• My early and invincible love of reading, which I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
  . . -- Edward Gibbo...
• Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts. -- Dryde
• Industrialization alienated millions of men from their source of love.
• The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 259...
• On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
  -- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) -- Memoirs, Vol. i, p. 116...