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... than we need " . " - ( George Colman . ) " Ad quae noscenda iter ingredi , transmittere mare solemus , ea sub oculis posita negligemus . " PLINY THE YOUNGER . Letters , VIII . , 20 . " We are always ready to take a journey or to cross ...
... than we need " . " - ( George Colman . ) " Ad quae noscenda iter ingredi , transmittere mare solemus , ea sub oculis posita negligemus . " PLINY THE YOUNGER . Letters , VIII . , 20 . " We are always ready to take a journey or to cross ...
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... than wealth , may I be blessed with virtue . " - ( Bonnell Thornton . ) " Bono vinci satius est , quam malo more injuriam vincere . ” SALLUST . Jugurtha , XLII . " It is better to use fair means and fail , than foul and conquer ...
... than wealth , may I be blessed with virtue . " - ( Bonnell Thornton . ) " Bono vinci satius est , quam malo more injuriam vincere . ” SALLUST . Jugurtha , XLII . " It is better to use fair means and fail , than foul and conquer ...
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... than recover their former fertility . " " Derisor vero plus laudatore movetur . " HORACE . De Arte Poetica , 433 . " False flattery displays More show of sympathy than honest praise . " - ( Conington . ) " Desinant Maledicere ...
... than recover their former fertility . " " Derisor vero plus laudatore movetur . " HORACE . De Arte Poetica , 433 . " False flattery displays More show of sympathy than honest praise . " - ( Conington . ) " Desinant Maledicere ...
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... than the brave man who has thrown down the gage to Fortune , and stands steadfast amidst her buffetings . ' " " " Eccum tibi lupum in sermone ! Praesens esuriens adest . " PLAUTUS . Stichus , Act IV . , Sc . I. , 71 .- ( Epignomus ...
... than the brave man who has thrown down the gage to Fortune , and stands steadfast amidst her buffetings . ' " " " Eccum tibi lupum in sermone ! Praesens esuriens adest . " PLAUTUS . Stichus , Act IV . , Sc . I. , 71 .- ( Epignomus ...
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... than a lasting one , and no one man can make himself a terror to many , without that terror recoiling upon himself . " " Equidem hercle nullum perdidi , ideo quia nunquam ullum habui . " PLAUTUS . Asinaria , Act III . , Sc . III . , 32 ...
... than a lasting one , and no one man can make himself a terror to many , without that terror recoiling upon himself . " " Equidem hercle nullum perdidi , ideo quia nunquam ullum habui . " PLAUTUS . Asinaria , Act III . , Sc . III . , 32 ...
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