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I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmæ.

— Aulus Gellius

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Another ancient poet, whose name I have forgotten, said that Truth is the daughter of Time.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time.

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