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Get (To)

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To gain; to procure; to obtain.

“Get wealth and place, if possible with grace;

If not, by any means get wealth and place.”

Horace (Satires) says:—“Rem facis, recte si possis; si non, rem facis.”

 

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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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