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On ne peut être juste si on n'est pas humain. One can not be just if one is not humane. VAUVENARGUES-Réflexions. XXVIII.

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Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos.
Being admonished, learn justice and despise
not the gods.
VERGIL Eneid. VI. 620.

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Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. WILLIAM WATSON-Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions. (1602) PRYNNEFresh Discovery of Prodigious New Wandering-Blazing Stars. Sec. ed. London, 1646. WARD-Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America. (1647) Motto of the EMPEROR FERDINAND. DUKE OF RICHMOND-Speech before the House of Lords. Jan. 31, 1642. See Parliamentary History. Vo. X. P. 28. Idea in THEOGNIS V. 869. In Anthologia Lyrica. 1868 ed. P. 72. TERENCE-Heut. IV, III, 41. VARRO-Ap. Nonn. Ch. IX, 7. HORACE Carmina. III, III, 8.

Fiat Justitia et ruat Mundus.-Egerton Papers (1552) P. 25. Camden Society. (1840) AIKIN-Court and Times of James I. Vol. II. P. 500. (1625)

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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

DANIEL WEBSTER-On Mr. Justice Story. (1845)

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I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. BURTON-Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

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(See also GARRICK)

Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

CICERO De Officiis. II. 14.

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Comin' through the rye, poor body,
Comin' through the rye,

She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin' through the rye

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Gin a body meet a body
Comin' through the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body
Need a body cry?

BURNS. Taken from an old song, The Bobtailed Lass. Found in Ane Pleasant Garden of Sweet-scented Flowers. Also in JOHNSON'S Scots Musical Museum, in the British Museum. Vol. V. P. 430. Ed. 1787. While it seems evident that the river Rye is referred to, the Editor of the Scottish American decides it is a field of grain that is meant, not the river.

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was Mrs. Carlyle.)

Drink to me only with thine eyes

And I'll not ask for wine

Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

And I will pledge with mine.

BEN JONSON-The Forest. To Celia. (See also PHILOSTRATUS)

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A soft lip, Would tempt you to eternity of kissing! BEN JONSON-Volpone; or, the Fox. Act I. Sc. 1.

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Favouritism governed kissage,

Even as it does in this age.

KIPLING Departmental Ditties. General Summary.

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My lips the sextons are

Of thy slain kisses.

GEORGE ERIC LANCASTER-In Pygmalion in Cyprus. P. 18. (Ed. 1880)

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