“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.”
Swallows and Amazons (Chapter 1), 1930
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“According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.”
P. Scipionem [...] dicere solitum scripsit Cato [...] numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum, quam cum solus esset.
Book III, section 1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.”
Canto I, line 481
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)