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falli errare labi decipi tam

Nam et ratione uti atque oratione prudenter et agere, quod agas, considerate omnique in re quid sit veri videre et tueri decet, contraque falli, errare, labi, decipi tam dedecet quam delirare et mente esse captum; et iusta omnia decora sunt, iniusta contra, ut turpia, sic indecora.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

foe Empowered like death to

I mourn for one so fondly blind: What woman of a prudent mind Would welcome, e'en as thou hast done, The lordship of a rival's son, Rejoiced to find her secret foe Empowered, like death, to launch the blow; I see that Ráma still must fear Thy Bharat, to his throne too near.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Few Extra Lessons DURING the

Chapter 18 I Take a Few Extra Lessons DURING the two or two and a half years of my apprenticeship, I served under many pilots, and had experience of many kinds of steamboatmen and many varieties of steamboats; for it was not always convenient for Mr. Bixby to have me with him, and in such cases he sent me with somebody else.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

for example leads directly to

That is to say, a proof in the sphere of transcendental cognition does not show that the given conception (that of an event, for example) leads directly to another conception (that of a cause)—for this would be a saltus which nothing can justify; but it shows that experience itself, and consequently the object of experience, is impossible without the connection indicated by these conceptions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

facilement entre les deux taches

Sur le bord extérieur, je devine encore l’extrémité des deux premières inférieures; à travers la seconde aile, un trait noir qui passe entre la lunule blanche et la large tache noire orbiculaire, m’indique bien la position de la deuxième inférieure; enfin, je suis non moins facilement, entre les deux taches noires orbiculaires, la troisième inférieure, un peu moins accusée.
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

first eighty lines designate the

I. In the first eighty lines designate the means used in describing Miles Standish.
— from The Courtship of Miles Standish: With Suggestions for Study and Notes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

for ever Lord Douglas that

"It is that your power on the Border may not be broken for ever, Lord Douglas, that I make the proffer.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 3 (of 3) by James Hogg

family enjoyed life despite their

Not the Ferrises, and so, as has been said, that happy family enjoyed life despite their critical neighbors, and as they all gathered about the scarlet cloth that evening, they looked like a band that ought never to be broken.
— from St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

for euery little displeasure that

For in those dayes before this law was made, the women for euery little displeasure that their husbands had done vnto them, would presently poison their husbands, and take other men, and now by reason of this law they are more faithfull vnto their husbands, and count their liues as deare as their owne, because that after his death her owne followeth presently.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

form extensive lakes during the

ons; these form extensive lakes during the wet season, and sodden marshes during the dry weather; thus contradictory accounts of the country may be given by travellers according to the seasons at which they examined it.
— from The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

from English life during the

In the autumn last past but two shows had a war motive: One "General Post," a story of the fall of caste from English life during the war, telling how a tailor became a general; the other "The Better 'Ole," a farce comedy, with a few musical skits in it, staged entirely "at the front."
— from The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

ferocious eye looking down the

On the stairs, at the end of the narrow passage, they beheld an enormous revolver, against a background of pink sleeping-suit, with a ferocious eye looking down the barrel.
— from The Crime Doctor by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

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