"When I was a boy I knew the Odes of Horace backwards and forwards, and when I came to manhood year by year those odes came knocking at the door of my heart at the most unexpected times and places."
— Horace

January 1, 1970

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Philosophers from RomeLiterary criticsPoets from RomeSatirists from RomeLatin authors
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Stanley Baldwin, speech to the City of London School (13 June 1924), quoted in Stanley Baldwin, On England, And other Addresses (1926), p. 120