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Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, "vox populi vox dei", quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
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Oh yes, We didn't have the rugged coast that you do, it was mainly around the solent and Isle of Wight, but it never leaves you.
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For what it's worth, I think one reason there are fewer sideswipes at Christians today I've noticed that too is that the Christians no longer sulk with solent self-pity, as was far too common when I was a pup, but respond energetically.
"Postchristianity" and the Future of Unitarian Universalism in North America Steve Caldwell 2008
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[4908] Quam ego postquam vidi, non ita amavi ut sani solent
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Principes plerumque ob licentiam et adfluentiam divitiarum istam passionem solent incurrere.
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[1458] Peregrina, etsi suavia solent vescentibus perturbationes insignes adferre, strange meats, though pleasant, cause notable alterations and distempers.
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[344] Neque novum, neque mirum, neque secus quam alii solent.
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Et ea loqui posset quae soli amatores loqui solent.
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Esse solent, sed pro magni viraque animaque — Hectoris.
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Non loquor de omni desperatione, sed tantum de ea qua desperare solent homines de Deo; opponitur spei, et est peccatum gravissimum,
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