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First philosopher poet Writing Sense

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

- Horace

Other quotes by Horace


O imitators, you slavish herd!

- Horace
Anger Words Men

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

- Horace
Purpose Pride Wrong Right

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

- Horace
Trust

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

- Horace
Death Time

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

- Horace

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

- Horace

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

- John Bright

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

- Graham Nelson

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

- Voltaire

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