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		<title>McCarthy, Cormac -- All the Pretty Horses (1992)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.</p>
<br><b>Cormac McCarthy</b> (1933–2023) American novelist, playwright, screenwriter<br><i>All the Pretty Horses</i> (1992) 
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		<title>Martial -- Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book 12, epigram  10 (12.10) (AD 101) [tr. Marcellino (1968)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a man who&#8217;s wangled millions; Yet the parasite&#8217;s not done. Fortune gives too much to many, Yet, strange to say, enough to none. [Habet Africanus miliens, tamen captat. Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.] &#8220;On Africanus.&#8221; Africanus is identified in some sources as a captator, one who sucked up to a childless millionaire in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a man who&#8217;s wangled millions;<br />
<span class="tab">Yet the parasite&#8217;s not done.<br />
Fortune gives too much to many,<br />
<span class="tab">Yet, strange to say, enough to none.</p>
<p><em>[Habet Africanus miliens, tamen captat.<br />
Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]</em></span></span></p>
<br><b>Martial</b> (AD c.39-c.103) Spanish Roman poet, satirist, epigrammatist [Marcus Valerius Martialis]<br><i>Epigrams [Epigrammata]</i>, Book 12, epigram  10 (12.10) (AD 101) [tr. Marcellino (1968)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/martialselectede0000unse/page/138/mode/2up?q=africanus" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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"On Africanus." Africanus is identified in some sources as a <i>captator</i>, one who sucked up to a childless millionaire in order to inherit part or all of their estate.<br><br> 

(<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi1294.phi002.perseus-lat1:12.10">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>As riche as Cresus Afric is:<br>
<span class="tab">for more yet hunts the chuffe:<br>
To muche to many, fortune gives,<br>
<span class="tab">and yet to none inuffe.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialinenglish00mart/page/12/mode/2up">Kendall</a> (1577)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fortune, some say, doth give too much to many:<br>
And yet she never gave enough to any.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Sir_John_Harington/hZ03AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22310%20fortune%22">Harington</a> (fl. c. 1600); Book 4, ep. 56; overall ep. 310]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>African has a thousand pounds in store,<br>
<span class="tab">Yet he desires, and hunts, and rakes for more:<br>
Fortune hath overmuch bestow'd on some;<br>
<span class="tab">But plenary content doth give to none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_Martial/LzXgAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22on%20africanus%22">Fletcher</a> (1656)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He fawns for more, though he his thousands touch:<br>
Fortune gives one enough, but some too much.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Select_Epigrams_of_Martial/guUNAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22fortune%20gives%22">Hay</a> (1755)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Millions has Africa; yet grasps at more:<br>
Too much have many, none sufficient store.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epigrams_of_M_Val_Martial/vksOAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22on%20africanus%22">Elphinston</a> (1782), 12.65]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Africanus possesses a hundred thousand sesterces, but is always striving by servility to acquire more. Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialmoderns00mart/page/122/mode/2up?q=%22sufficient+fortune%22">Amos</a> (1858), ch. 3, ep. 92, "Sufficient Fortune"]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Africanus possesses a hundred thousand sesterces, and yet covets more. Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_epigrams_book12.htm#:~:text=Africanus%20possesses%20a%20hundred%20thousand%20sesterces%2C%20and%20yet%20covets%20more.%20Fortune%20gives%20too%20much%20to%20many%2C%20enough%20to%20none.">Bohn's Classical</a> (1859)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_Quotations_classical/2rSZy0yVFm8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22enough%20to%20none%22">Harbottle</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>





<blockquote>African us possesses a hundred millions, yet he angles for more. Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/RIxiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22africanus%20possesses%22">Ker</a> (1919)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Although he is a millionaire,<br>
<span class="tab">He courts the rich who lack an heir;<br>
Fortune gives much to many a one,<br>
<span class="tab">But just enough she grants to none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialtwelveboo0000tran/page/374/mode/2up?q=millionaire">Pott & Wright</a> (1921)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Africanus has a hundred million, but still he fishes for legacies. Fortune gives too much to many, to none enough.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/martialepigrams0003unse/page/98/mode/2up?q=africanus">Shackleton Bailey</a> (1993)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Africanus is a tireless legacy-hunter<br>
though he's a wealthy man.<br>
Fortune gives too much to many,<br>
enough to none<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Martial_Art/QPdaAAAAMAAJ?kptab=editions&gbpv=1&bsq=fortune">Kennelly</a> (2008)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Although worth millions, Africanus hunts a legacy.<br>
To many Fortune gives too much, enough to nobody.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectedepigrams0000mart_b6d3/page/98/mode/2up?q=africanus">McLean</a> (2014)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Africanus has a hundred million, and still he's hunting legacies. Fortune gives too much to many, but "enough" to none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigrams/AqHKBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=africanus">Nisbet</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Roosevelt, Theodore -- Essay (1916-05), &#8220;The Parasite Woman: The Only Indispensable Citizen,&#8221; Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 43, No.  6</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all species of silliness the silliest is the assertion sometimes made that the woman whose primary lifework is taking care of her home and children is somehow a &#8220;parasite woman.&#8221; It is such a ridiculous in version of the truth that it ought not to be necessary even to allude to it. Collected in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of all species of silliness the silliest is the assertion sometimes made that the woman whose primary lifework is taking care of her home and children is somehow a &#8220;parasite woman.&#8221; It is such a ridiculous in version of the truth that it ought not to be necessary even to allude to it.</p>
<br><b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)<br>Essay (1916-05), &#8220;The Parasite Woman: The Only Indispensable Citizen,&#8221; <i>Metropolitan</i> Magazine, Vol. 43, No.  6 
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<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Foes_of_Our_Own_Household/EqUZAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22species%20of%20silliness%22">Collected</a> in his <i>The Foes of Our Own Household</i>, ch. 11 (1917).
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