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Quas aut incuria fudit, aut humana parum cavit natura.
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Rather than let this step beyond the landmarks of power have the effect of a legitimate precedent, it will be better to apply to it the legal aphorism de minimis non curat lex: or to class it cum "maculis quas aut incuria fudit, aut humana parum cavit natura."
Just in time for the election, Michael Newdow's "Under God" lawsuit is back, along with a challenge to "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency. Ann Althouse 2007
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In fact, if there be enough of goodness in a character to engage the admiration and affection of a well-disposed mind, though there should appear some of those little blemishes quas humana parum cavit natura, they will raise our compassion rather than our abhorrence.
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Those natural blots, quas aut incuria fudit, aut humaria parum cavit natura, are to be found, no doubt, in his pages.
The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905
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Those natural blots, quas aut incuria fudit, aut humaria parum cavit natura, are to be found, no doubt, in his pages.
The Life of Froude 1894
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[718] Dei, qui, lege lata, quid fieri vellet diserte cavit.
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* Dei, qui, lege lata, quid fieri vellet diserte cavit.
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Interea propter ordinem servandum, unus aut certus aliquis ministrorum coetum convocavit, et in coetu res consultandas proposuit, sententias item aliorum collegit, denique, ne qua oriretur confusio, pro virili cavit.
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[122] Cavite derives its name from the Tagál word _cavit_, a creek, or bend, or hook, for such is its form.
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In mala, and what we can both now laugh at, and you may, if you like, burn as nonsense (I mean these remarks), would come with a very different kind of force from some sneering reviewer in the plenitude of his triumph at the detection of a slip of the pen or one of those little inaccuracies which _humana parum cavit natura_ ....
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826
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