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horace-works_155		horace-works_155			.txt	text/plain	1032	44	75	Ask me not, my best Quinctius, whether my farm maintains its master with cornfields, or enriches him with olives, or with fruits, or meadow land, or the elm tree clothed with vines: the shape and situation of my ground shall be described to you at large. Long ago, all Rome has proclaimed you happy: but I am apprehensive, lest you should give more credit concerning yourself to any one than yourself; and lest you should imagine a man happy, who differs from the wise and good; or, because the people pronounce you sound and perfectly well, lest you dissemble the lurking fever at mealtimes, until a trembling seize your greased hands. To be sure-I like to be called a wise and good man, as well as you. Who then is a good man? "I am a good man, and thrifty: your Sabine friend denies, and contradicts the fact.	./cache/horace-works_155.txt	./txt/horace-works_155.txt