id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_136 horace-works_136 .txt text/plain 1450 71 79 If a thrush, or any[ nice] thing for your own private[ eating], shall be given you; it must wing way to that place, where shines a great fortune, the possessor being an old man: delicious apples, and whatever dainties your wellcultivated ground brings forth for you, let the rich man, as more to be reverenced than your household god, taste before him: and, though he be perjured, of no family, stained with his brother 's blood, a runaway; if he desire it, do not refuse to go along with him, his companion on the outer side. If an affair, either of little or great consequence, shall be contested at any time at the bar; whichever of the parties live wealthy without heirs, should he be a rogue, who daringly takes the law of a better man, be thou his advocate: despise the citizen, who is superior in reputation, and[ the justness of] his cause, if at home he has a son or a fruitful wife. ./cache/horace-works_136.txt ./txt/horace-works_136.txt