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Never without a shilling in my purse.

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

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

Home May Think
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
HORACE

Hate Sin Virtue
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible

Never without a shilling in my purse.

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