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Neither spoke until they passed the low stone wall, and then the candidate said, brusquely: "Harley, unless this moonlight deceives me, there is moisture on your eyelids. What do you mean by such unmanly weakness?" Harley smiled, but, refraining from the tu quoque, left Jimmy Grayson to lead the way, and he noticed that he chose a course that did not take them back to the hotel.

Britannos quoque, ut ex captivis audiebatur, visa classis obstupefaciebat, tanquam, aperto maris sui secreto, ultimum victis perfugium clauderetur.

Nee tamen hoc tribuens dederim quoque caetera. I cannot agree that a clergyman is obliged to put up with an affront any more than another man, and more especially when it is paid to the order."

And if inconvenient moralists tell us we are cowards for our pains, we turn round with a tu quoque, or say that we don't meddle with other folk's affairs; that people are much less black than they are painted, and so on. What! Won't half the county go to Ogreham Castle? Won't some of the clergy say grace at dinner? Won't the mothers bring their daughters to dance with the young Rawheads?

Nobody suggests that there is anything wrong in their being discontented with their station; or that, in their cases society suffers by men of ability reaching the positions for which nature has fitted them. But there are better replies than those of the tu quoque sort to the caste argument.

"Aude, hospes, contemnere opes, et te quoque dignum Finge Deo . . . " For my part, I am lost in the admiration of it. I contemn the world when I think on it, and myself when I translate it.

Aderant Valens et Caecina, monstrabantque pugnae locos: 'Hinc irrupisse legionum agmen: hinc equites coortos: inde circumfusas auxiliorum manus. Jam tribuni praefectique, sua quisque facta extollentes; falsa, vera, aut majora vero miscebant. Vulgus quoque militum, clamore et gaudio deflectere via, spatia certaminum recognoscere, aggerem armorum, strues corporum intueri, mirari.

There are sorrows which must be hidden, which it is better to endeavour to bury by never speaking of them, by not thinking of them, if that were possible." "Is it as bad as that?" the lad asked. "It is bad enough sometimes. But never mind. You remember that Roman wisdom, 'Dabit Deus his quoque finem. And I think that all things are bearable if a man will only make up his mind to bear them.

It is true that this same "Wife of Bath" also observes with an effective tu quoque: By God, if women had but written stories, As clerkes have within their oratories, They would have writ of men more wickedness Than all the race of Adam may redress; and the "Legend of Good Women" seems, in point of fact, to have been intended to offer some such kind of amends as is here declared to be called for.

"I might reply with a tu quoque. But that doesn't matter. You have some trouble to tell me. What has happened?" "You have heard nothing?" "Nothing whatever." He drew a stool toward him and seated himself at her side. "You know, I am not a person to whom gossip drifts quickly." "It's not gossip it's truth. The Marut Diamond Company is closed for good and all." "You mean it has gone smash?"