“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Why am I taking seduction advice from a man whose idea of foreplay is to slam coins on the table and shout: 'Who wants to ride the big horse?'""Because he knows best, Tinker.”
Source: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 6
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