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"Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."
John Dryden / Juvenal. Satire x.
Juvenal. Satire x.
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"I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd."
Sir Walter Scott / The Betrothed. Chap. xxviii.
The Betrothed. Chap. xxviii.
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"And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die."
Stephen Harvey / Juvenal, Satire ix.
Juvenal, Satire ix.
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"No man ever became extremely wicked all at once."
Juvenal / Satire ii. 83.
Satire ii. 83.
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"Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician; fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,--he knew everything."
Juvenal / Satire iii. 76.
Satire iii. 76.
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"Nobility is the one only virtue."
Juvenal / Satire viii. 20.
Satire viii. 20.
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