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To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
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