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History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 1/4

Note 531 — Chapter III

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“Io vos propongo grandes premios, mas embueltos en grandes trabajos; pero la virtud no quiere ociosidad.” (Gomara, Crónica, cap. 9.) It is the thought so finely expressed by Thomson:

“For sluggard’s brow the laurel never grows; Renown is not the child of indolent repose.”

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