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... A aucuns les biens viennent en dormant . ( Fr. ) Prov.- Good fortune comes to people while they are asleep . 2. Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia . ( L. ) Law Max . The abuse of anything is no argument against its proper use . 3 ...
... A aucuns les biens viennent en dormant . ( Fr. ) Prov.- Good fortune comes to people while they are asleep . 2. Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia . ( L. ) Law Max . The abuse of anything is no argument against its proper use . 3 ...
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... Prov.- Poverty obstructs the road to virtue . It is so easy to be good when one is well off . 14. Abnormis sapiens crassaque Minerva . ( L. ) Hor . Ep . 2 , 2 , 3. Of plain good sense , untutored in the school . Full of mother - wit . A ...
... Prov.- Poverty obstructs the road to virtue . It is so easy to be good when one is well off . 14. Abnormis sapiens crassaque Minerva . ( L. ) Hor . Ep . 2 , 2 , 3. Of plain good sense , untutored in the school . Full of mother - wit . A ...
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... A right of way past a dwelling may not be so injured by the carts of the party possessing the right , as to make the ... Prov . - Adam must have an Eve , to blame for what he has done . 62. Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet . ( L ...
... A right of way past a dwelling may not be so injured by the carts of the party possessing the right , as to make the ... Prov . - Adam must have an Eve , to blame for what he has done . 62. Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet . ( L ...
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... a very rare thing in our days . Most rare is now our old simplicity . — Dryden . Motto of Spectator 269 , on Sir ... Prov . - Clear water flows from a pure spring . 141. A force de peindre le diable sur les murs , il finit par ap ...
... a very rare thing in our days . Most rare is now our old simplicity . — Dryden . Motto of Spectator 269 , on Sir ... Prov . - Clear water flows from a pure spring . 141. A force de peindre le diable sur les murs , il finit par ap ...
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... a large force , " i.e. , his own . Also , Ibis , redibis , non morieris in bello ( Thou shalt go , thou shalt return ... Prov . - Leave the jest at its best . See Bohn's Foreign Prov . 167. A la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle ...
... a large force , " i.e. , his own . Also , Ibis , redibis , non morieris in bello ( Thou shalt go , thou shalt return ... Prov . - Leave the jest at its best . See Bohn's Foreign Prov . 167. A la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle ...
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