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Many A Time A Man Cannot Be Such As He Would Be, If Circumstances Do Not Admit Of It.
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Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances
do not admit of it.
-- Terence (185-159 BC)
-- Heautontimoroumenos, Act iv, Sc. 1, 53, (666.)
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