I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the World without this trivial and vulgar way of union it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life nor is there any. (Thomas Browne)

I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the World without this trivial and vulgar way of union it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life nor is there any.

Thomas Browne

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