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Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
[Lat., Fiat justitia, ruat coelum.]
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.
Wise men ne'er wail their present woes.
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more
I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.