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place is kept under lock
Nowadays the place is kept under lock and key, and you must give the countersign or you will be turned away from the door thereof by a Chinaman whose face is the image of injured innocence.
— from In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard

Problem in Kunst und Leben
480. Berg, I. Das sexuelle Problem in Kunst und Leben.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

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