"De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius pæres, Nec habet eventus sordida præda bonos."
— Inheritance

January 1, 1970

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What's ill-got scarce to a third heir descends, Nor wrongful booty meets with prosperous ends. — Quoted by Thomas Walsingham, History, p. 260; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 394.