Thus I knew puppies were like dogs, and kids like their dams; thus I used to compare great things with small. — Virgil

Thus I knew puppies were like dogs, and kids like their dams; thus I used to compare great things with small.

In the original (Latin)

Sic canibus catulos similes, sic matribus haedos

noram, sic parvis componere magna solebam.

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