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When you try to conceal your wrinkles, Polla, with paste made from beans, you deceive yourself, not me. Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised. A fault concealed is presumed to be great.
When you try to conceal your wrinkles, Polla, with paste made from beans, you deceive yourself, not me. Let a defect, which is possibly but small, appear undisguised. A fault concealed is presumed to be great.
Approximate author period: c. 71 AD · classical
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- Martial
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- Approximate author period: c. 71 AD · classical
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 15 · quotation 8 · Martial · Epigrams. Bk. III. Ep. 42.
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