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minutely it never does exactly recur
If we consider the antecedent state and process of things very widely or very minutely, it never does exactly recur; nor does the consequent.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

moris in nobiles domos et regiam
“Vere proximè elapso, per Gallias passim ingravescere coeperunt febres mali moris in nobiles domos, et regiam praecipue infestae; quò Ludovicum Magnum ipsa infortunia ostenderent Majorem, et patientia Christianissima Maximum.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

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