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If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

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If you are at Rome live in the Roman style if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
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Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
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Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.
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