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Misattributed - Art is long, life is short.

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I am displeased when sometimes even the worthy Homer nods.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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Struggling to be brief I become obscure.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones - c. 18 BC

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Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace Epistles - c. 20 BC and 14 BC Book II, epistle ii, line 210.

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