deserts
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do.
After the house is finished, he deserts it.
When your luck deserts you, even cold food burns.
A dog won't forsake his master because of poverty; a son never deserts his mother because of her homely appearance.