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horace-works_161		horace-works_161			.txt	text/plain	2580	91	68	In apologizing for not having written to him, he shows that the well- ordering of life is of more importance than the composition of verses. A genius who has chosen quiet Athens for his residence, and has devoted seven years to study, and has grown old in books and study, frequently walks forth more dumb than a statue, and shakes the people 's sides with laughter: here, in the midst of the billows and tempests of the city, can I be thought capable of connecting words likely to wake the sound of the lyre?	cache/horace-works_161.txt	txt/horace-works_161.txt
