, the acting company
that performed the plays of William Shakespeare
, Ben Jonson
, John Fletcher
, and other playwrights of Jacobean and Caroline drama.
In English Renaissance theatre
, the prompter managed the company's performances, ensuring that they went according to plan; he also supervised and maintained the troupe's dramatic manuscripts, its "playbooks." It was in this sense that the prompter "held" and "kept" the "books" of the company.
The great advantage of abstinence education is that it introduces teenagers to hypocrisy at an early age.
Let the fundamentalist Christians raise losers. I want my teenagers to have as much sex as they can possibly get.
If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Usez, n'abusez point […] L'abstinence ou l'excès ne fit jamais d'heureux.