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No one has leave to sin.
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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
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No sane man will dance.
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