“Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.”

Quoted in David G. Plotkin (1955), Dictionary of American Maxims; the last phrase translates roughly as "Wonderfully, amazingly; remarkable to say; It's a miracle! "
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