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  • It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

    "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, CXXXIX, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 23-25, 44 B.C..
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