“Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.”
Kingsley Amis book Take a Girl Like You
Source: Take a Girl Like You (1960), Ch. 17
“In charity there is no excess.”
— Francis Bacon, book Essays
Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
Essays (1625)
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Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XX The Cult
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