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People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form; and concern, which they seldom feel. This is not the case between you and me, where truth leaves no room for compliments. 'Dii tibi dent annos, de to nam caetera sumes', was said formerly to one by a man who certainly did not think it. With the variation of one word only, I will with great truth say it to you.
In July he writes of himself as "now beginning to be truly busy" on it, "the pain and sorrows of this life having retarded its progress." Mr. Fitzgerald, through an oversight in translation, and understanding Sterne to say that he himself, and not his correspondent, Hall Stevenson, was "quadraginta et plus annos natus," has referred it to an earlier date.
O mihi proeteritos referat si Jupiter annos! Next session he would arrange things better. Success in examinations what trivial fuss when one looked at it from the right point of view! And he had fretted himself into misery, because Chilvers had got more 'marks', ha, ha, ha! The morrow's waking was lugubrious enough. Headache and nausea weighed upon him.
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