“With silver drops the mead yet spread for ruth,
In active games of nimbleness and strength,
Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth,
Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length.
The secret groves, which oft we made resound
Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise;
Recording oft what grace each one had found,
What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.”
Source: Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth his Pleasure there Passed, Line 21
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“Custom renders love attractive; for that which is struck by oft-repeated blows however lightly, yet after long course of time is overpowered and gives way. See you not too that drops of water falling on rocks after long course of time scoop a hole through these rocks?”
Consuetudo concinnat amorem;
nam leviter quamvis quod crebro tunditur ictu,
vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque labascit.
Nonne vides etiam guttas in saxa cadentis
umoris longo in spatio pertundere saxa?
Book IV, lines 1283–1287 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

Speech to the annual dinner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (29 June 1939), quoted in The Times (30 June 1939), p. 9
Foreign Secretary

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1079052935483609090 (29 December 2018)
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Speech to the Federation of British Industries (13 April 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), pp. 116-117.
1937

“For oft the grace
Of costly vest improves a beauteous face.”
Book XXVIII, line 82
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)