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• Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
  ] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.] -- Aelius Donatu...
• Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. "Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
  -- Aelius Donatu...
• We cannot prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days.
  But so said all before us, and with just as much reason....
• Audemus jura nostra defendere... [Let us dare defend our rights.]
• There may be said to be two classes of people in the world
  hose who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not....
• I think I agree with the old lady who said if God had intended us to fly he would never have given us the railways.
  -- Michael Flande...
• Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...