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

Horace

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

Fire Neighbor Wall
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE

Military Venture Wise
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
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
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
HORACE

Grief Limit Men

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