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tempora mutantur
tem-po-ra moo-TAWN-tyoor
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the times are changing
1869Emma Jane WorboiseOverdaleHe was; but tempora mutantur, you know.1920Mary Roberts RinehartA Poor Wise ManSome young whipper snapper who employed a handful of men had undertaken to show him where he, Anthony Cardew, was a clog in the wheel of progress. Not in so many words, but he had said: 'Tempora mutantur, Mr. Cardew. And the wise employer meets those changes half-way.

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