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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

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One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his or her national culture on the global stage.

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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

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Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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Limbs of a dismembered poet.

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Times change, and we change with them.

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Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

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Don't waste the opportunity.

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