intercourse quotes

   Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. SeeAdams 5:92, Chesterton 211:46.

-Decatur, Stephen
  Speech made in Norfolk, Virginia,  Apr.

'Twonations; betweenwhomthere isnointercourseand no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed bya different breeding, are fed by a different 276 food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.' 'You speak ofö'said Egremont, hesitatingly.'THE RICH ANDTHE POOR.'

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Sybil, bk.2, ch.5.

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

-Dworkin, Andrea
  Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

   Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

-Hirsch, E(ric) D(onald),Jr
  Cultural Literacy: What Every  American Needs to Know, introduction.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^9  The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me)ö Between the end of the Chatterly ban And the Beatles'first LP.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Annus Mirabilis'.

By far the most valuable things, which we know or can imagine, are certain states of consciousness, which may be roughly described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects.

-Moore, G(eorge) E(dward)
  Principia Ethica, ch.6.

I think it not unlikely but I shall be in England before you receivethisöYou may be surethat Ifeel happyat turning my face towards home.We this morning have done with all intercourse with the natives; and the sails are now hoisting for our departure for the coast.

-Park, Mungo
  Last letter to his wife before leaving Sansanding on the River Niger. Collected in Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in theYear1805 (published1815). Park and his party reportedly drowned in the river when they were ambushed and their boat sank.

A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.2, l.267^8 (published1850).

Practically every man feels that there is in woman†an element of unreason which, when you come upon it, summarily puts an end to purely intellectual intercourse.

-Wright, SirAlmroth Edward
  The Unexpurgated Case againstWoman Suffrage, pt.5.

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