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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
HORACE

Mean Money Stills
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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Irrevocably Literature People Word
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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Country Ease People Rich
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
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Plunder Time Year
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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Car Men Wheels
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
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Difficulty Explanation Involve
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
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Gravem Need War Wine
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
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
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Home May Think
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Badly Life People Privacy
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

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