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FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

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One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

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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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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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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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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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The dispute is still before the judge.

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One Sallow does not make Summer.

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Times change, and we change with them.

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The same night awaits us all.

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The words can not return.

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Half is done when the beginning is done.

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The grammarians are arguing.

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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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The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

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

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Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

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