Quote 4230
By wanton touches and dalliance, mental adultery is oft committed.
John Trapp
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Many there are that suffer the sun not only to go down upon their anger, but to run his whole race— yes, many races—ere they can be reconciled, whereby their anger becomes inveterate and turns into malice, for anger and malice differ but in age.
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