“Tis Nature’s use, when in one point she fails.
Aye in some other to make good the loss.”

—  Agnolo Firenzuola

Satira a S. Pandolfo Pucci (published 1548).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 435.

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