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Dulce et decorum est pro patria laboro and so forth.
Lipstick... Ann Althouse 2008
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The obscure passages is often affected, brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio; the desire of expressing perhaps a common idea with sententious and oracular brevity: alas! how fatal has been the imitation of Montesquieu!
Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994
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"La laboro estas finota morgaux", The work is going to be finished to-morrow.
The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians Helen Fryer
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Thus far concerning Mr. Biglow; and so much seemed needful (_brevis esse laboro_) by way of preliminary, after a silence of fourteen years.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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Mi respondis "Mi ne scias, sed mi timas ke ni estos tre lacaj post tiom da laboro."
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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Uzante unu el tiuj masxinoj, oni povis facile pusxi al la akvo la sxipojn (necese konstruitajn sur la tero); kiujn antauxe la viroj mem enpusxis en la akvon, kun multe da laboro, aux tiris tien per cxevaloj.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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La laboro nun finigxas, the work is now coming to an end.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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De antaux kelkaj jaroj sxi portas okulvitrojn por legi aux skribi aux kudri, kaj sxi bezonas ripozon post malmulte da laboro.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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Thus far concerning Mr. Biglow; and so much seemed needful (_brevis esse laboro_) by way of preliminary, after a silence of fourteen years.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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That on _Brevis esse laboro_ was in English, and might have represented an adventure which had befallen
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804
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