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He might have spoken to a deaf man for all he moved his judge; and Elzevir's answer was to cock the pistol and prime the powder in the pan.

— J. Meade Falkner Moonfleet (1898)

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Ita in vita ut in lusu alae pessima jactura arte corrigenda est.
As in life, so in a game of hazard, skill will make something of the worst of throws.

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