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Eyes are bold as lions,-roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! EMERSON Conduct of Life. Behavior.

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Scitum est inter cæcos luscum requare posse. Among the blind the one-eyed man is king. ERASMUS-Adagia, Dignitas et Excellentia et Inequalitas, sub-division, Excel. et Ineq. (about 1500) Proverbs collected by MiCHAEL APOSTOLIOS, Cent. VII. 31. Latin given as: Cæcorum in patria luscus rex imperat omnis. Taken from the Greek. See CHILIADES-Adagiorum, fifth centuria, third Chilias No. 96. Earliest use probably in G. FULLENIUS Comedye of Acolastus, trans. by JOHN PALSGRAVE from the Latin. (1540) Quoted by EDMUND CAMPION-Rationes Decom. (1581) CARLYLE-Frederick the Great. Bk. 4. Ch. II. Quoted as: Beati monoculi in regione cæcorum. Blessed are the one-eyed in the country of the blind. HERBERT Jacula Prudentum. Also in Miscellanæ. Pt. II. Fourth Ed. P. 342. JUVENAL-Satire X. 227, gives it as: Ambes Perdidit ille oculus et luscis invidet. (See also BURTON, MARVEL, NÜCHTER, SKELTON)

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