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More than likely I probably will see it but it looks like an amatur fan film ... not that there is anything bad about that ...
Starhyke trailer 2008
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And the face especially gives a lustre to the rest: the face is it that commonly denominates a fair or foul: arx formae facies, the face is beauty's tower; and though the other parts be deformed, yet a good face carries it (facies non uxor amatur) that alone is most part respected, principally valued, deliciis suis ferox, and of itself able to captivate.
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_Amor, amaris, amatur_ -- Woman goes like thunder when a starter!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 Various 1876
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Love to God as the ground-virtue unfolds itself into the four cardinal virtues: TEMPERANTIA, amor integrum se pracbens ei, quod amatur; FORTITUDO, amor facile tolerans omnia propter quod amartur; JUSTITIA, amor soli amato serviens et propterea recte dominans; PRUDENTIA, amor ea, quibus adjuvatur, ab eis, quibus impeditur, sagaciter seligens.
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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"Subit quippe etiam ipsius inertiae dulcedo; et invisa primo desidia postremo amatur."
Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Subit quippe etiam ipsius inertiae dulcedo; et invisa primo desidia postremo amatur."
Eugene Aram — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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{29} St. Austin observes, Amor ipse ordinate amandus est, quo bene amatur quod amandum sit, ut sit in nobis virtue qua vivitur bene, _i. e.
Human Nature and Other Sermons Joseph Butler 1722
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[K] Natura infirmitatis humanae, tadiora sunt remedia quam mala; & ut corpora lente augescunt, cito extinguuntur, sic ingenia studiaque oppresseris, facilius quam revocaveris; subit quippe ipsius inertiae dulcedo, et invisa primo desidia postremo amatur.
'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation Aaron Hill 1717
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The schoolmen say truly, Bonum non amatur quod non cognoscitur; ‘we cannot love that which we do not know.’
The Ten Commandments 1692
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Cukuplah Saiful Apek atau raja-raja lawak amatur yang buat lawak.
~penarik beca 2009
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