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Britain has about 240 different species of dandelion, and since I started questioning my wanton destruction of these plants, I have discovered six of them.

If I had all that energy back — all the hours and neurochemicals and facial musculature I have expended in my wanton pursuit of likedness — I could propel myself to Mars and back.

Food exercise labels would, for me in those days, have been another guilt-inducing indication of what I viewed as my wanton lack of self-control when I fell, as I invariably did.

But as with most girls I fancied in my wanton youth, I doubt I'd like her if we met today.

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Instead, the essay begins with Montaigne saying that now he is old he allows his mind to wander into erotic fantasies, or, as Florio deliciously put it in his translation of 1603: "I doe now of purpose somewhat give way unto licentious allurements; and now and then employ my minde in wanton and youthfull conceits".

My husband now nodded, disloyally, I thought, as if he, too, were appalled by my acquiescence in a wanton act of check vandalism.

Apparently, my conduct was "malicious, willful, wanton or reckless," and I had "negligently, carelessly and without regard" for my patient's health treated her in such a manner that she had died the previous year.

To everyone else it was simply wanton abandonment of my duties.

Who knew one of the mildest shows imaginable could spur so much reckless dancing and wanton snogging among my elders.

Swaddled in the particular type of self-loathing that arises from unwitting rigidity in the face of wanton merrymaking, I kept my mouth shut, lest I commit an "I carried a watermelon" offense and get kicked out -- or worse, shamed -- for not belonging.

And yet, you wanton rampallian, you hath sunk my BATTLESHIP".

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