How can we explain simultaneously this general pattern of female parental care and also its numerous exceptions? Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Lady Windermere's Fan
Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit. Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
...do not courageous men endure death because they are afraid of yet greater evils? ...Then all but philosophers are courageous only from fear, and because they are afraid; and yet that a man should be courageous from fear, and because he is a coward, is surely a strange thing. The Trials Of Socrates
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