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They condemn what they do not understand.

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While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.

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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

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I want to live, and die with you.

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Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

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The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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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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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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Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

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The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

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Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers, which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject. So likewise in João Gilberto Noll, readers shouldn't expect samba and Carnival and football. The Brazilian national identity is not one of his primary concerns.

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One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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