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- From: carl@class.gsfc.nasa.gov (Carl F. Hostetter)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: HELP locating quote -- Martyrs
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:47:25 GMT
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- I've been looking for the source of a quotation. I can't recall
- it verbatim, but it is very close to:
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- "We have endured much, but the martyrs endured and to the end."
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- Can anyone help me locate the source for this?
-
- Thanks!
-
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- | Carl F. Hostetter carl@class.gsfc.nasa.gov |
- | |
- | Ars longa, vita brevis. |
- | The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. |
- | "I wish life was not so short," he thought. "Languages take |
- | such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about." |
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