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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Petronius Arbiter

All the world practices the art of acting.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

Parents deserve reproof when they refuse to benefit their children by severe discipline.

The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation.