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Never without a shilling in my purse.

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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful

Never without a shilling in my purse.

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