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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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Don't carry logs into the forest.

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Victory is by nature superb and insulting.

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The same night awaits us all.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

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The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

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Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

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Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

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Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

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The grammarians are arguing.

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Times change, and we change with them.

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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

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One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

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TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

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Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings

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By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

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