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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.

Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Vertentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.

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