"Freud was way off base in considering..." - Quote by Robert Frost
Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
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“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”
“The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.”
“Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.”
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“In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.”
“Fond of those hives where folly reigns,And cards and scandal are the chains,Where the pert virgin slights a name,And scorns to redden into shame.”
“If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.”