Remember this,—that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Remember this,—that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Meditations. iv. 32.
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- c. 150 AD · classical
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