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Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.
Approximate author period: c. 37 BC · classical
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- Horace
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- Approximate author period: c. 37 BC · classical
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 14 · quotation 17 · Horace · Of the Art of Poetry. Wentworth Dillon's trans. L. 212.
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