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The Literature of Kissing

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Lansdowne

The kiss you take is paid by that you give:
The joy is mutual, and I’m still in debt.

Heroic Love.

Goldsmith

Marlow. To guess at this distance, you can’t be much above forty. [Approaching.] Yet nearer, I don’t think so much. [Approaching.] By coming close to some women, they look younger still; but when we come very close indeed—[Attempting to kiss her.]

Miss Hardcastle. Pray, sir, keep your distance. One would think you wanted to know one’s age as they do horses, by mark of mouth.

She Stoops to Conquer.

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