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With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.

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Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

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Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

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One Sallow does not make Summer.

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No man is born without faults.

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Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

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He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

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Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

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

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Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

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Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

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