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  • May 20, 2008 at 8:15 am i dunno i nebar bin in diz pozis….possis….nebar haz to make dis decizzin befoar?

    yassir arracat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Tam praesentibus plena est numinibus, ut facilius possis

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Sapientiae Labor annexus, gloriae invidia, divitiis curae, soboli solicitudo, voluptati morbi, quieti paupertas, ut quasi fruendoriun scelerum causa nasci hominem possis cum Platonistis agnoscere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Miserum est ab eo laedi, a quo non possis queri, a miserable thing 'tis to be injured of him, from whom is no appeal: [3992] and not safe to write against him that can proscribe and punish a man at his pleasure, which Asinius

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Antiphanes the comedian's observation of old, Love and drunkenness cannot be concealed, Celare alia possis, haec praeter duo, vini potum, &c. words, looks, gestures, all will betray them; but two of the most notable signs are observed by the pulse and countenance.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vendas quot assibus possis, et si nequeas, relinquas.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • ‘Rem, si possis recte, si non quocunque modo’ was whispered into the ear in a club smoking-room, and the whisperer intended that his words should prevail.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • * Magistrum neminem habemus nisi solum Deum; hic ante te est, nec abscondi potest, sed cui nihil facere possis.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • [180] Magistrum neminem habemus nisi solum Deum; hic ante te est, nec abscondi potest, sed cui nihil facere possis.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • This leads to Ovid's request: atque utinam possis, et detur amicius aruum, remque tuam ponas in meliore loco! quod quoniam in dis est, tempta lenire precando numina perpetua quae pietate colis.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

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