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Non quaero cum irascatur sed cur, nor utrum sit tristis sed unde, non utrum timeat sed quid timeat.
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“Good-bye to our fortune, and bad luck go with her — I puff the prostitute away — Si celeres quatit pennas, you remember what we used to say at Grey Friars — resign quae dedit, et mea virtute me involve, probamque pauperiem sine dote quaero.”
The Newcomes 2006
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'Non iam illud quaero, contra ut me diligat illa, aut, quod non potis est, esse pudica velit: ipse valere opto et taetrum hunc deponere morbum.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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LVCENTES, mea uita, nec smaragdos, beryllos neque, Flacce mi, nitentes nec percandida margarita quaero nec quos thunica lima perpoliuit anulos neque iaspios lapillos.
To Horace Maecenas 1912
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"Good-bye to our fortune, and bad luck go with her -- I puff the prostitute away -- Si celeres quatit pennas, you remember what we used to say at Grey Friars -- resign quae dedit, et mea virtute me involve, probamque pauperiem sine dote quaero."
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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In particular, he feared the development of a new type of gagging order - a "quaero injunction" - that prevents people speaking out against injustice.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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But if he must needs, for shame or fear, sometimes make a shew at least of searching after this precious man, let him however send him timely notice thereof underhand, that so the justice may fairly and judiciously search for that which he is sure not to find; according to that of the poet, Istud quaero, quod invenire nolo.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Praeterea autem, dum illum quaero, a villa mer - cenarium Vidi: i« filium negat effe ruri: nec, quid agam, fcioJ C. Syre.
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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