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"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian Author

Man, Men, Hens, Service, Woman

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"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."

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