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Quotation by Horace
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Hints toward Reforms (1850)Ars Poetica (c. 13 B.C.)Ars Poetica Epistles (13 B.C.), trans. by Kate Hughes (1995))Epistles (22-8 B.C.)OdesRelated Subjects
love (11) birds (7) musicians (6) music (6) mourning (4) death (4) singing (3) wind (3) spring (2) truth (2)
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.), Roman poet. Satires, bk. 1, satire 3, l. 1 (c. 35 B.C.).
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