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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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment
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
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
By the favour of the heavens
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Favour Heaven Religious
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
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
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
The arrow will not always find the mark intended.
HORACE

Arrows Intent Mark People
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.
HORACE

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

Face Good Men Sense
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea

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