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La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
Do as we say, and not as we do.
Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.
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The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.
They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.