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we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

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Maude Royden
Age: 79 †
Born: 1876
Born: November 23
Died: 1956
Died: July 30
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