Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1892, tr. Mrs. Annis Lee Wister (Masterpieces of German Literature, vol. 13, p. 434):
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
Hippolyte Taine, A Tour Through the Pyrenees , tr. J. Safford Fiske (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1875), 149-51: This valley is solitar...
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