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Townsfolk know it: _subsannatio et derisio sumus, _ we have become a laughingstock to mankind.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Our Cellerarius a cipher; the very Townsfolk know it: _subsannatio et derisio sumus_, we have become a laughingstock to mankind.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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