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    Cut your coat according to your cloth: the story of the Bentham Room

     Velis id quod possis Non facere ipse queo Tetrasticha; disticha possum, Accipe quod possum, quod nequeo, sileat. Jeremy Bentham, May 1759   Cut your coat according to your cloth A quatrain isn’t something I can do; But here’s a couplet: Take what’s offered you. Translation by Nicholas Stone, 2015   Last school year Jeremy Bentham (OW 1755-1760) was celebrated as…