December 2011
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To Libertines
Voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex, it is to you only that I offer this work; nourish yourselves upon its principles: they favor your passions, and these passions, whereof coldly insipid moralists put you in fear, are naught but the means Nature employs to bring man to the ends she prescribes to him; harken only to these delicious promptings, for no voice save that of the passions can conduct...
Dec 31st
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
– Edmund Burke 
Dec 15th
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Dec 6th
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“I cannot omit setting down here an adventure that happened to Mr. [Thomas] Dixon...”
– George Carpenter, Paris, 1717
Dec 3rd
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