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Anne Applebaum delivers the Grano lecture in Calgary, Alberta: Inside Putin's Russia.

It was unimportant whether it was taken "cum grano salis" or without, so the void was filled.

Ex eius avis unus verrucam in extremo naso sitam habuit, ciceris grano similem; inde cognomen Ciceronis genti inditum.

Mr Baker, though receiving the advice cum grano salis, profited by it.

Many of the stories which I have introduced must of course be received by the impartial or incredulous reader "cum grano salis."

But I took that information cum grano, for I instinctively knew him to be a prince traveling incognito.