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why buy a book when you can join a library

why buy a book when you can join a library proverb: being available for sexual relationships with various people is preferable to committing oneself to a single partner.

Proverb

why buy a book when you can join a library?

  1. (humorous) Being available for sexual relationships with various people is preferable to committing oneself to a single partner.

Forms of why buy a book when you can join a library

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Questions about why buy a book when you can join a library

What does why buy a book when you can join a library mean?
Why buy a book when you can join a library means being available for sexual relationships with various people is preferable to committing oneself to a single partner.
What part of speech is why buy a book when you can join a library?
Why buy a book when you can join a library is a proverb.

Words near why buy a book when you can join a library in the dictionary

  1. whvs
  2. why
  3. why am I not surprised
  4. why and wherefore
  5. why aye
  6. why buy a book when you can join a library
  7. why buy a book when you can join the library
  8. why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free
  9. why come
  10. why for
  11. why God invented

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