As with commodities, so with kissings, the greater the rarity, the greater the vale.
Osculatory transactions there be as lasting in their results as transient in their causes.
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A cheek surreptitiously brushed in the dark is preferable to lips premittedly pressed by day.
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What an extraordinary multiplicity of maneuvers a man will perform for
"Just one kiss!" But
With the precise numerical equivalent of the expression "Just one kiss" algebra has not yet been found quite able to grapple. It is believed, however, to belong to Permutations and Combinations.
There is a very decided, but wholly indefinable, line of demarcation between the kissed and the unkissed woman. In other words,
The "status quo ante exosculationem" can never be re-established: hitherto the kisses may have been friends; henceforward they may be. . . they may be . . . . . . But
Who shall say to what kissing may lead? Besides,