Deus vult
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I answered softly, "I am a poor man, my lord," while inwardly I was quoting, "Quem Deus vult perdere."
From The King's Stratagem and Other Stories by Weyman, Stanley John
Quem Deus vult perrdere prrius dementat, ye remember.
From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard
Boswell quoted Quern Deus vult perdere, prius dementat, and asked where it was.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
The higher and middle classes of England were animated by zeal not less fiery than that of the Crusaders who raised the cry of Deus vult at Clermont.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
If this be true, we can only say quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Lang, Andrew
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