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Ex oculorum optutu, superciliorum aut remissione aut contractione, ex maestitia, ex hilaritate, ex risu, ex locutione, ex reticentia, ex contentione vocis, ex summissione, ex ceteris similibus facile iudicabimus, quid eorum apte fiat, quid ab officio naturaque discrepet.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our submarine, from the inside, was an amazing collection of engines, tanks, gauges, tubes, pipes, valves, wheels, torpedoes, tube heads, electric registers, electric lights, and whatnot.
— from The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
Julius, who had exercised rigid economy, left 700,000 ducats in the coffers of S. Angelo.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds
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