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Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

Horace

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

First Money Wealth
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
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
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
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
HORACE

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

Home May Think
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve

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