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Dulce est Desipere in Loco

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It is delightful to play the fool occasionally; it is nice to throw aside one’s dignity and relax at the proper time. (Horace: 4 Odes, xii. 28.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Duke Street (Strand)
Duke and Duchess
Duke of Exeter’s Daughter (The)
Duke or Darling
Duke’s
Duke’s Walk
Dukeries
Dulcarnon
Dulce Domum
Dulce est Desipere in Loco
Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria Mori (Latin)
Dulcimer (Italian dolcimello)
Dulcinea
Dulcinists
Dulia
Dull as a Fro
Dull as Ditch-water
Dulness
Dum Sola (Latin)
Dum Spiro, Spero