You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be… - Horace
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin.
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Horatius Flaccus
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