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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
By that sin fell the angels.
By that sin fell the angels.
An undertaking beset with danger.
An undertaking beset with danger.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.
Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.
Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.
