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Mark Twain

“For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race -- and of ours -- sexual intercourse!

It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!”

Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
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Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
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