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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1684 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) |
| QUOTATION: | I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | HENRY DAVID THOREAU, journal entry, April 12, 1852.—The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals, ed. Odell Shepard, p. 126 (1927). |
| SUBJECTS: | Sex |
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