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Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas. 2Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas. 2Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
Approximate author period: c. 13 BC · classical
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- Ovid
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- Approximate author period: c. 13 BC · classical
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 623 · quotation 3 · Ovid · Epistolæ Ex Ponto III. 4. 79.
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