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Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Juvenal

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Juvenal
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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Threshold
Offensive
Enter
Ears
Youth
Within
Eye
Thresholds
Nothing
Dwells

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