"How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered……" — Richard von Krafft-Ebing

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• France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse,… — Charles Baudelaire
• My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's… — Nick Cassavetes
• I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to… — Mikhail Lermontov
• Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard… — Enoch Powell
• Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of… — Kenneth Tynan
• In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he… — Marc Thiessen
• Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world… — Russell Kirk
• In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group… — Tom Brewer
• A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to… — Beatrix Campbell
• And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me. — Molly Ivins
• A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first… — Dee Dee Myers
• In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion… — Florence King

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