One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. - Horace

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I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

Horace

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]

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