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The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.Giovenale · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 380
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Giovenale · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 380
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- W. A. Clouston · Book of Wise Sayings (1893) · Detto n. 380 · attribuzione riportata: Juvenal
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