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Henry St. John Bolingbroke

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ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
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ST. BASIL Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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ST. BASIL Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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