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«The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.»
Author: Anthony Burgess (Critic, Man of letter, Novelist) | Keywords: adultery, aura, clings, European, itch, New England, penalty, polygamy, serial, theocratic, The European, The Problem of the
«In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin: When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined; When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: bride, concubine, confined, craft, crafted, crafts, cursedly, multiply, one to one, pious, polygamy, priest, promiscuous, prompted, prompting
«POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: expiatory, monogamy, polygamy, stools
«I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.»
Author: David Ogilvy | About: Clients and customers, Sales | Keywords: attend, beach, client, convention, engagement, engagements, pebble, polygamy, previous, spouse
«Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: endeavour, polygamy
«Polygamy: An endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: polygamy
«Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: avoids, crude, cruder, Good Wives, harem, polygamy, requirement, so long, spiritual, variability, virtues
«The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: celibacy, polygamy, tempered
«In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: pious, polygamy, priestcraft
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