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*"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi," <i> Atlantic Monthly</i>, 1874.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes",] Who will guard the guards themselves?

* "A pint's a pound the world around." Thus, a pint has 16 ounces, and so does a pound.

*"Venite Adoremus": Come and let's adore, or Come let us adore him.

*"Veni, Vidi , Vici": I came, I saw, I conquered, in Latin. Julius Caesar said this.

*"Per centum": for each 100, in Latin.

*"e.g.": "exempli gratia", "for example", "as a free example", from Latin.

*"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné, " "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." From [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Quotations#Valery.2C_Paul Paul Verlaine and W.H. Auden. ]

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		+	*"Quod erat demonstrandum": Which was to be shown. Used at the end of a proof, when you've shown that the proposition is true.

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 *"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."  Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi," <i> Atlantic Monthly</i>, 1874.
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 *"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné, "  "A poem is never finished, only abandoned." From  [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Quotations#Valery.2C_Paul Paul Verlaine and W.H. Auden. ]