Often must you turn your pencil to erase, if you hope to write something worth a second reading. - Horace

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Often must you turn your pencil to erase, if you hope to write something worth a second reading.

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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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Native Name: Q. Horatius Flaccus
Alternative Names: Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horatius Horatius Flaccus
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