“Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.”
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) Irish bishop
Poems (Ed. 1865), p. 303. Proverbs, Turkish and Persian.
“Princes' sports are these:
A mill they'll spare: a province they will seize.”
Ce sont là jeux de prince:
On respecte un moulin: on vole une province.
Le Meunier de Sans-Souci. (Ed. 1818, Vol. III., p. 208).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 24.
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