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Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.
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Although the words run speedily, the hand is swifter than them; the tongue has not yet, the hand has already completed its work.
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Epigrammaton liber XIV: Martialis Epigrammata (CCVIII Notarius).

 
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