Ovid and Martial, among others, always taught that the Romans, even if coarser than the Greeks, knew a lot about the Ars amatoria.

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Even if a four-ply Scottish sweater feels slightly coarser on the shelf than its French or Italian counterpart, the argument goes, it lasts for decades, arriving at cozy perfection around the time those fancy continental sweaters might start to pill.

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