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 DANGER DANGER

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 12 Ægrotat Dæmon; monachus tunc esse volebat, Dæmon convaluit; Ltemon ante fuit. Mediaeval Latin. The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. As trans, by Urquhart And Motteux. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Bower)

Sur un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit Ieurs pas, Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface, Glissez mortels; n'appuyez pas. O'er the ice the rapid skater flies. With sport above and death below, Where mischief lurks in gay disguise Thus lightly touch and quickly go. Pierre Charles Roy. Lines under a picture of skaters, a print of a painting by LanCret. Trans, by Samuel Johnson. See Piozzi, Anecdotes. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Danger | page = 159 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 14 Scit eum sine gloria vinci, qui sine periculo vincitur. He knows that the man is overcome ingloriously, who is overcome without danger. Seneca—De Procidentia. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Danger | page = 159 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 15 Contemptum periculorum assiduitas perielitandi dabit. Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Seneca—De Provulenlia. IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Danger | page = 159 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 16 Il n'y a personne qui ne soit dangereux pour quelqu'un. There is no person who is not dangerous for some one. Mme. De Sevigne—Lctlres. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Danger | page = 159 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 17 For though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I something in me dangerous. Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 285. is Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Danger | page = 159 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 19 Wc have scotched the snake, not killed it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of our former tooth. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 13. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Danger | page = 159 }}