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They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk

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