Improving the wife's face by cutting off her nose

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Improving the wife's face by cutting off her nose.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd short-sightedness. · Remedies worse than the disease. · view the constellation · filed as J2119.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Penzer V 68f.
general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 21 No. 76.

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Filed under Nose cut off to get it out of the light.

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