“Not by hazard are ye come; divine fate, I ween, hath brought you to my shores.”
Haud temere est, fato divum reor ad mea vectos
litora vos.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 741–742
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Sec. 67
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
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Actually by André Gide.
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