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“Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.”

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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

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Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

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