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. _Fr. Pr._ =A jest loses its point when he who makes it= 40 =is the first to laugh.= _Schiller._ =A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2. =A Jove principium=--Beginning with Jove. =A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.= _Goethe._ =A judicious= (verständiger) =man is of much value for himself, of little for the whole.= _Goethe._ =A king of shreds and patches.= _Ham._, iii. 4. 45 =A king's son is no nobler than his company.= _Gael. Pr._ =A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.= _Ham._, iv. 2. =A l'abandon=--At random; little cared for. _Fr._ =A la belle étoile=--In the open air. _Fr._ =A la bonne heure=--Well-timed; very well. _Fr._ 50 =A l'abri=--Under shelter. _Fr._ =A la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle=--By candlelight a goat looks like a young lady. _Fr. Pr._ =A la dérobée=--By stealth. _Fr._ =A la fin saura-t-on qui a mangé le lard=--We shall know in the end who ate the bacon. _Fr. Pr._ =A la française=--In the French fashion. _Fr._ 55 =A la lettre=--Literally. _Fr._ =A la mode=--According to the fashion. _Fr._ =A l'amour satisfait tout son charme est ôté=--When love is satisfied all the charm of it is gone. _Corneille._ =A la portée de tout le monde=--Within reach of every one. _Fr._ =A la presse vont les fous=--Fools go in crowds. 60 _Fr. Pr._ =Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.= _Sheridan._ =A last judgment is necessary, because fools flourish.= _Wm. Blake._ =A last judgment is not for making bad men better, but for hindering them from oppressing the good.= _Wm. Blake._ =A latere=--From the side of (sc. the Pope). =A lazy man is necessarily a bad man; an= 65 =idle, is necessarily a demoralised population.= _Draper._ =Albæ gallinæ filius=--The son of a white hen. =Album calculum addere=--To give a white stone, _i.e._, to vote for, by putting a white stone into an urn, a black one indicating rejection. =Al corral con ello=--Out of the window with it. _Sp._ =Alea belli=--The hazard of war. =Alea jacta est=--The die is cast. 70 =Alea judiciorum=--The hazard or uncertainty of law. =A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard.= _Pr._ =A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring.= _W. R. Alger._ =Al enemigo, si vuelve la espalda, la puente de plata=--Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy. _Sp. Pr._ =Alere flammam=--To feed the flame. =Ales volat propriis=--A bird flies to its own. =Al fin se canta la Gloria=--Not till the end is the 5 Gloria chanted. _Sp. Pr._ =Al fresco=--In the open air. _It._ =Aliam excute quercum=--Go, shake some other oak (of its fruit). _Pr._ =Alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum=--Ruling men is one thing, fiddling to them another. _Pr._ =A liar is always lavish of oaths.= _Corneille._ =A liar should have a good memory.= _Pr._ 10 =Alias=--Otherwise. =Alia tentanda via est=--We must try another way. =Alibi=--Elsewhere. =A lie is like a snowball; the farther you roll it, the bigger it becomes.= _Luther._ =A lie has no legs, but scandal has wings.= 15 _Pr._ =A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.= _Tennyson._ =Aliena negotia centum / Per caput, et circa saliunt latus=--A hundred affairs of other people leap through my head and at my side. _Hor._ =Aliena negotia curo / Excussus propriis=--I attend to other people's affairs, baffled with my own. _Hor._ =Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent=--That which belongs to others pleases us most; that which belongs to us pleases others more. _Pub. Syr._ =Aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis=--We 20 are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. _Hor._ =Aliena optimum frui insania=--It is best to profit by the madness of other people. _Pr._ =Aliena vitia in oculis habemus; a tergo nostra sunt=--We keep the faults of others before our eyes; our own behind our backs. _Sen._ =Alieni appetens, sui profusus=--Covetous of other men's property, prodigal of his own. _Sall._ =Alieni temporis flores=--Flowers of other days. =Alieno in loco haud stabile regnum est=--Sovereignty 25 over a foreign land is insecure. _Sen._ =Alieno more vivendum est mihi=--I must live according to another's humour. _Ter._ =Alienos agros irrigas tuis sitientibus=--You water the fields of others, while your own are parched. _Pr._ =A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.= _Carlyle._ =A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright / But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.= _Tennyson._ =A life that is worth writing at all is worth= 30 =writing minutely.= _Longfellow._ =A light heart lives long.= _Pr._ =Alii sementem faciunt, alii metentem=--Some do the sowing, others the reaping. =Aliis lætus, sapiens sibi=--Cheerful for others, wise for himself. _Pr._ =A l'impossible nul n'est tenu=--No one can be held bound to do what is impossible. _Fr. Pr._ =A l'improviste=--Unawares. _Fr._ 35 =Aliorum medicus, ipse ulceribus scates=--A physician to others, while you yourself are full of ulcers. =Alio sub sole=--Under another sky (_lit._ sun). =Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus=--Sometimes even the good Homer nods. _Hor._ =Aliquis non debet esse judex in propria causa=--No one may sit as judge in his own case. _L._ =Alis volat propriis=--He flies with his own wings. 40 _M._ =A little body often harbours a great soul.= _Pr._ =A little fire is quickly trodden out; / Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 8. =A little is better than none.= _Pr._ =A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.= _Pope._ =A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.= 45 _Pr._ =A little more than kin, and less than kind.= _Ham._, i. 2. =A little neglect may breed great mischief.= _Franklin._ =A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.= _Bacon._ =A little spark maks muckle wark.= _Sc. Pr._ =Alitur vitium vivitque tegendo=--Evil is nourished 50 and grows by concealment. _Virg._ =Aliud est celare, aliud tacere=--To conceal is one thing, to say nothing is another. _L. Max._ =Aliud et idem=--Another and the same. =Aliud legunt pueri, aliud viri, aliud senes=--Boys read books one way, men another, old men another. _Ter._ =A living dog is better than a dead lion.= _Pr._ =Alle anderen Dinge müssen; der Mensch ist= 55 =das Wesen, welches will=--All other things must; man is the only creature who wills. _Schiller._ =Alle Frachten lichten, sagte der Schiffer, da warf er seine Frau über Bord=--All freights lighten, said the skipper, as he threw his wife into the sea. _Ger. Pr._ =Allegans contraria non est audiendus=--No one is to be heard whose evidence is contradictory. _L. Max._ =Allen gehört, was du denkest; dein eigen ist nur, was du fühlest=--What you think belongs to all; only what you feel is your own. _Schiller._ =Aller Anfang ist heiter; die Schwelle ist der Platz der Erwartung=--Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. _Goethe._ =Aller Anfang ist schwer, sprach der Dieb, und= 60 =stahl zuerst einen Amboss=--Every beginning is difficult, said the thief, when he began by stealing an anvil. _Ger. Pr._ =Alle Schuld rächt sich auf Erden=--Every offence is avenged on earth. _Goethe._ =Alles Gescheidte ist schon gedacht worden; man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken=--Everything wise has already been thought; one can only try and think it once more. _Goethe._ =Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichniss=--Everything transitory is only an allegory. _Goethe._ =Alles wanket, wo der Glaube fehlt=--All is unsteady (_lit._ wavers) where faith fails. _Ger. Pr._ =Alles wäre gut, wär kein Aber dabei=--Everything would be right if it were not for the "Buts." _Ger. Pr._ =Alles, was ist, ist vernünftig=--Everything which is, is agreeable to reason. _Hegel._ =Alles zu retten, muss alles gewagt werden=--To save all, we must risk all. _Schiller._ =All advantages are attended with disadvantages.= 5 _Hume._ =All are but parts of one stupendous whole / Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.= _Pope._ =All argument will vanish before one touch of Nature.= _Colman._ =All are not hunters that blow the horn.= _Pr._ =All are not saints that go to church.= _Pr._ =All are not soldiers that go to the wars.= 10 _Pr._ =All are not thieves that dogs bark at.= _Pr._ =All art is great, and good, and true, only so far as it is distinctively the work of manhood in its entire and highest sense.= _Ruskin._ =All balloons give up their gas in the pressure of things, and collapse in a sufficiently wretched manner erelong.= _Carlyle._ =All battle is misunderstanding.= _Goethe._ =All beginnings are easy; it is the ulterior= 15 =steps that are of most difficult ascent and most rarely taken.= _Goethe._ =All cats are grey in the dark.= _Pr._ =All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare.= _Johnson._ =All cruelty springs from weakness.= _Sen._ =All death in nature is birth.= _Fichte._ =All deep joy has something of awful in it.= 20 _Carlyle._ =All delights are vain; but that most vain / Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1. =All destruction, by violent revolution or howsoever it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.= _Carlyle._ =All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.= _Joubert._ [Greek: All' estin, entha chê dikê blabên pherei]--Sometimes justice does harm. _Sophocles._ =All evil is as a nightmare; the instant you= 25 =begin to= _stir_ =under it, the evil is gone.= _Carlyle._ =All evils, when extreme, are the same.= _Corneille._ =All faults are properly shortcomings.= _Goethe._ =All faiths are to their own believers just / For none believe because they will, but must.= _Dryden._ =All feet tread not in one shoe.= _Pr._ =All flesh consorteth according to its kind, and= 30 =a man will cleave to his like.= _Ecclus._ =All forms of government are good, so far as the wise and kind in them govern the unwise and unkind.= _Ruskin._ =All good colour is in some degree pensive, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.= _Ruskin._ =All good government must begin at home.= _H. R. Haweis._ =All good has an end but the goodness of God.= _Gael. Pr._ =All good things / Are ours, nor soul helps= 35 =flesh more now / Than flesh helps soul.= _Browning._ =All good things go in threes.= _Ger. and Fr. Pr._ =All governments are to some extent a treaty with the Devil.= _Jacobi._ =All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not in his own.= _Ruskin._ =All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinkings.= _C. H. Parkhurst._ =All great peoples are conservative.= _Carlyle._ 40 =All great song h