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The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment

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