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They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
ST. JEROME

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROME

Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROME

Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROME

Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROME

Hard Impression Mindset White
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Fine Stomach Thinking
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice

They talk like angels but they live like men.

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