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Alas for the baleful poverty of the miser who is never rich! His desire for a limitless heap of what he holds makes him a beggar.

— Sulpicius Lupercus Servastus

Heu mala paupertas numquam locupletis avari!
dum struere immodice quod tenet optat, eget.

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They are beggared of Latin style, and their confused jargon minces ridiculous words to an accompaniment of shocking sounds.

Heu misera in nimios hominum petulantia census!

Each thing our parent Nature hath created,
How firm soever, Time will see it waste, and
By a long usage, feeble grown and fragile,
Fall into ruin.

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