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• Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text
• It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC,
• making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin
• professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of
• the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum
• passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical
• comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum