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Quis nostrum contentus fuit
aut leviter rogari aut semel ? Quis non, cum aliquid
a se peti suspicatus est, frontem adduxit, vultum
avertit, occupationes simulavit, longis sermonibus et
de industria non invenientibus exitum occasionem
petendi abstulit et variis artibus necessitates prope-
rantes elusit ;
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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