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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-08-08:

"A piece of village wisdom he was slow to grasp is that sex is a holiday, an activity remarkably brief in our body's budget compared with sleeping or food-gathering or constructing battlements for self-defense, such as the Great Wall of China." -- John Updike, in his novel Villages.