Vergilius Ferm
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Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm ( * 1896; † February 4, 1974 in Wooster, Ohio
Wooster, Ohio
Wooster is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Wayne County. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio approximately SSW of Cleveland and SW of Akron. Wooster is noted as the location of The College of Wooster...

) was the Compton Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster.
Quotations

The great advantage of abstinence education is that it introduces teenagers to hypocrisy at an early age.

Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, Arborophila|Arborophilia (2005)

Let the fundamentalist Christians raise losers. I want my teenagers to have as much sex as they can possibly get.

Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, Arborophila|Arborophilia (2005)

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Jacob Appel|Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, The Replacement (2006)

Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists", Man and Superman (1903)

Usez, n'abusez point […] L'abstinence ou l'excès ne fit jamais d'heureux.

Translation: Use, do not abuse […] Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

 
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