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Grossness is not difficult to define: it is obtrusive and objectionable pleasantry.Teofrasto · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 303
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Teofrasto · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 303
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- W. A. Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings (1893) · Detto n. 303 · attribuzione riportata: Theophrastus
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