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Storia che mette in guardia sui pericoli di comprare troppa roba online uscendo di senno, nello stile dei vecchi film educativi.
No Fat Clips!!! : The Many Perils of Over-Studying: History 2007
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Vero è che rideva di te ma, col senno di poi, sai che non poteva fare altrimenti.
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Mr. Masson fancies "a mood of jest or semi-jest in the whole affair"; but we think rather that Milton's quiet assumption of equality with two such famous poets was as seriously characteristic as Dante's ranking himself _sesto tra cotanto senno_.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Falsa era l 'opinione intorno a lui, giacchè egli si mostrò fornito più di coraggio, che di senno.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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And certainly it is an error frequent for men to shoot over, and to suppose deeper ends and more compass reaches than are: the Italian proverb being elegant, and for the most part true: — “Di danari, di senno, e di fede, C’e ne manco che non credi.”
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Horace, Ovid, and Dante, _il sesto tra cotanto senno_. [
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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[136] _Mar di tutto il senno_, he calls Virgil (Inferno, VIII.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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