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4/1/40
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T20/5 Thursday after Reminiscere
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Cherubino da Spoleto, Serafino da Mantova
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No faithfulness is in the world. Every work and art is corrupted and falsified. Therefore, for everyone involve in business, either selling or buying, renting, leasing, or exchanging, it is true what the Psalm states: Why do you glorify yourself in malice? Your tongue thought about injustice all the day long, as a sharp razor you did deceit [Psalm 51.4]. Here note three ways through which a person cheats and deceives his neighbour in business, when negotiating with him, of which
the first one is the mental slyness,
the second the deceit in words,
the third the fraud in deeds.
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